Global Warming is killing 150,000 people each year and turning poor countries into a teenage wasteland reports the WHO.

Earth's warming climate is estimated to contribute to more than 150,000 deaths and 5 million illnesses each year, according to the World Health Organization, a toll that could double by 2030...

Health and climate scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who conducted one of the most comprehensive efforts yet to measure the impact of global warming on health, said the WHO data also show that rising temperatures disproportionately affect poor countries that have done little to create the problem. They reached their conclusions after entering data on climate-sensitive diseases into mapping software.

So they plotted malaria cases against a map and discovered that poor equatorial countries are afflicted more than the United States. (Yes, they actually get paid to do this.) Ironically, since most of these "climate-sensitive diseases" are spread by insects this probably has more to do with the environmentalist wackos and the EPA ban on DDT than anything else. But at least somebody gets it:

"Wealth is the number one factor in determining vulnerability or adaptability of a country to any of the threats out there," said John R. Christy, a climatologist who directs the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Christy, who lived in Kenya in the mid-1970s, added, "Thugocracies and other non-democratically accountable governments . . . have no real incentive to create a healthy populace with free markets and therefore free people."

In other words, spreading freedom and capitalistic free markets would be the most effective way to rescue people from third world threats like malaria and diarrhea. Of course any global warming trends that may be occurring are not caused by carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. It's caused by THE SUN, which has been at the highest level of solar output in the last 1100 years. And everyone seems to have forgotten that the globe has been warming for 20,000 years...