The 103-page report on the climate launched by Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, claiming that global warming is "killing 300,000 people a year" is causing a stir, writes Britain's Telegraph [2]. For one, University of Colorado at Boulder climate expert Roger Pielke Jr. has taken exception with the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum's work. "It is a methodological embarrassment and poster child for how to lie with statistics," Pielke says (via LiveScience [3]), adding the estimate comes from a flawed source: the "very strange comparison of earthquake and weather disasters in 1980 and 2005." The Wall Street Journal [4] points out that Pielke's debunking of the report, which claims that global warming costs $125 billion annually and will eventually lead to "mass starvation, mass migration, and mass sickness," is more fodder for alarmists. Pielke claims the report's problems are a "disservice" to those who take climate-change issues seriously. Explore the issue for yourself via Time [5].