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#LookItUp: Global fatalities from weather disasters

19 Feb 2025 | Science Notes

By now you've all heard the slogans, not least from the UN Chief Marxist Climate Alarmist António Guterres, that global warming is a Code Red global boiling gates-of-hell crisis killing countless helpless people around the world each year. So if we were to look at data showing the number of fatalities each year from natural disasters including all weather and climate-related phenomena, it would surely be soaring higher each year, right, with bodies stacked up as if the moon had turned to blood? Wrong. How do we know? Let's #Lookitup.

Courtesy of Our World in Data the average number of real-world fatalities per 100,000 persons by decade is as follows:

We can get a bit more granular, looking at annual data by weather type. Here’s drought:

Here are floods:

Here are storms:

You get the idea. To be fair, there is one indicator trending up, and it’s extreme temperatures:

But we don't know if these are deaths from extreme heat or cold. (Or indeed better or more tendentious counting.) But if it’s real, whether it’s heat or cold, the solution is better heating and air conditioning, which requires inexpensive energy. And the solution to scary sloganeering is to #LookitUp.

2 comments on “#LookItUp: Global fatalities from weather disasters”

  1. Great charts! BTW it is a fact that low temperatures are much more dangerous than high temperatures thus explaining why 90+% of living organisms on earth live within 1000 miles of the equator, this fact also explains why 99% of Canadians live within 250 miles of the US border!

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