October 12, 2009 8:32AM # The Economist’s Flawed Backgrounder on Climate & Development By Indur M. Goklany --- SHARE *The Economist*’s print edition has published my [letter](http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14585537) taking it to task for a pretty [uninformed piece it published on the impacts of climate change](http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14447171) last month. Although the editors changed the title, dropped the references which I furnish reflexively, and is somewhat briefer, the printed version is for the most part quite faithful to the spirit of the original. For the benefit of readers interested in checking my statements and going beyond the “he said, she said” nature of most exchanges on the opinion pages of newspapers and magazines, my original letter is [here](http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/08/a-bad-climate-for-development-rebuttal-to-the-economist/). ##### Related Tags [Energy and Environment](https://www.cato.org/research/energy-environment) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).