The amazing thing is that almost every figure cited in this article is demonstrably wrong, and is easily shown to be so. In order to write this, Tatchell had to just accept every little morsel of moronity at face value, and never bother to verify the story with any independent source, or even any high-school level dumb-dumb Earth Science book.
Why are you so hard on Peter, he only wants to be liked. And after all Joslin Elders as surgeon general said, "Well we are all going to die of something".