Climate deaths at record lows despite ‘climate crisis’
Deaths from climate disasters continue to drop despite claims that an impending “climate crisis” is threatening human existence.
Global warming is at a record high, claim climate operatives, with July 4th being the “hottest day “ever”.
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres warned this month that “climate change” is “out of control” and “we are moving into a catastrophic situation.” Media operatives are also warning about an apocalypse caused by more natural disasters.
“Heatwaves: world reels from wildfires, floods as US and China discuss climate crisis” – Reuters
“Extreme heat and flooding worldwide reflect the magnitude of the climate crisis” – NPR
“Climate change crisis LIVE: Typhoon Talim reaches Vietnam after unleashing havoc in China” – WION
“Heat waves in Europe killed more than 61,600 people last summer, a study estimates” – NPR
“Global heat records and natural disasters 'exceeding' climate experts predictions” – MSNBC
Last week, European officials signed a joint declaration designating July 15th as Annual EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis. The declaration was signed by European Green Deal Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans, Spain Deputy Prime Minister Teresa Ribera and European Parliament Vice President Marc Angel.
But publicly available data between 1900 and 2022 show that global deaths from natural disasters are at record lows. These disasters include fog, drought, extreme weather, earthquakes, mass movements, extreme temperatures and glacial lake outbursts. Even China, considered the world’s largest climate offender, is seeing some of its lowest deaths from natural disasters in over a century.
Looking at decadal averages of death rates from natural disasters produces similar findings:
But media coverage of natural disasters is disproportionate to the number of casualties. Data show that even one climate-related death in Europe receives news coverage by major US networks. Some networks, such as the Associated Press, have openly admitted to receiving money from globalist organizations like the Rockefeller Foundation for “climate change” coverage.
Even claims about July 4th being the hottest day “ever” — which is being arbitrarily defined by climate messianists as the last interglacial period 120,000 years ago — has been refuted by scientists.
“It is not true that July 4, 2023 was ‘the hottest day in Earth’s recorded history’ (4.6 billion years),” tweeted climate scientist and Greenpeace Co-Founder Dr. Patrick Moore last week. “Or even for the past 140 years. The previous 3 interglacial periods were all warmer than this one. This is the Pleistocene Ice Age.”
But climate “experts” have been known to alter their calculations when needed. In 2013, scientists who authored a report for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were told to “cover up” the fact that the planet’s temperature had not risen in 15 years.
Furthermore, even claims that natural disasters are a product of man-made “climate change” have been rebutted by scientists.
A December report produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), Heartland Institute, Energy & Environment Legal Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), and International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) slammed “climate alarmists and their media allies” for falsely pinning natural disasters this year on man-made emissions, claims which they said “clashed with reality and science.”
“There is not a single natural disaster, nor trend in any type of natural disaster that can be credibly linked with emissions or whatever gradual ‘climate change’ may be occurring for whatever reason, including natural climate change,” said the report. “Attributing natural disaster damages to emissions and climate change is without a factual or scientific basis.”
The report fact-checked ten separate instances of media outlets claiming “climate change” after a natural disaster.
In one example, the groups cited an article by the New York Times in the summer which sounded the alarm over heat waves in the United Kingdom. The Times blamed the heat on climate change, saying “heat waves around the world are becoming hotter, more frequent and longer lasting.”
But the fact check noted that according to the National Climate Assessment, heat waves have actually declined dramatically in the US over the past 90 years, making it unlikely that Britain is in danger of global warming.
“Moreover, during the UK heatwaves, average global warming remained fairly constant at 0.2°C to 0.3°C (0.36°F to 0.54°F) over the 1979-2000 average global temperature, an amount of warming that is not even really measurable,” said the report.
More recently, WaPo tried to claim that global warming has been causing shorter winters which is why the 2022 World Cup could only hold one of eight skiing races as of mid-November.
“First, winter doesn’t begin until December 21,” the report explained. “Next, when World Cup skiing started in the 1960s, the season began in January. Now it begins in October, which is early- to mid-autumn. If the competition began in the winter everything would likely be okay because wintertime snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has been increasing since the 1960s.”
The report fact-checked other climate change alarmist claims made by the media about Hurricane Ian, low water levels in Nevada’s Lake Mead, the Yellowstone River flooding, famine on the Horn of Africa, the China drought, and the European drought.
“Regardless of one’s view of what passes as ‘climate science,’ the good news is that even researchers who believe that ‘climate change’ is a problem acknowledge that the number of weather-related deaths and the cost of weather-related damage are actually on the decline — despite ever-increasing emissions and whatever slight warming may be occurring,” the report concluded.
