Climate change alarmists have responded to the recent warm weather by pointing to global warming as the monster that will wipe out summer heat.
“Summer is quickly becoming a season of severe extremes.” write NBC News reporter Evan Bush reported “record heat” across the Northeast, “flooding” in the Midwest, and “tropical storm-force weather” in Texas.
While the article is reluctant to attribute specific weather-related events to global warming, it does argue that “the specter of climate change lurks behind many recent events.”
Bush cites UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain, who argues that the “signature” of climate change will be most noticeable in the summer.
“It wouldn’t be surprising if we had another record-breaking heat wave and another record-breaking rainfall,” Swain said. “It’s exhausting, but I think it’s really important that we don’t forget or let it slip away.”
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“This phenomenon is often more pronounced in the summer because, obviously, the Northern Hemisphere summer is the time of year when most people on Earth experience the hottest weather,” he points out.
“In the past few weeks, we have analysed heatwaves in India, Saudi Arabia and now the eastern United States,” argues Davide Faranda of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. “In each case, we see a strong influence of anthropogenic climate change exacerbating the phenomena.”
While Bush has focused on property damage caused by recent weather, he has refrained from citing studies showing that far fewer people die each year from weather-related events than a century ago.
Global deaths from weather-related events have fallen steadily over the years, to a small fraction of what they were 100 years ago.
Climate expert Bjorn Lomborg says the human toll from extreme weather is decreasing year by year. report 2022.
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“Fewer and fewer people are dying from climate-related natural disasters,” Lomborg wrote. “Despite all the breathless climate reporting, almost 99% fewer people died in 2021 than 100 years ago.”
Lomborg, who chairs the Copenhagen Consensus, noted that a total of 6,134 people died from weather-related events in 2021, representing a 98.7 percent decrease since the 1920s.
“Over the past 100 years, the number of annual climate-related deaths has fallen by more than 96 percent,” Lomborg explained. “In the 1920s, the number of deaths from climate-related disasters averaged 485,000 per year. Over the past decade, from 2010 to 2019, the average was 18,362 per year, a decrease of 96.2 percent.”
President Bush also neglected to mention that roughly 10 times as many people die from cold each year as from heat, which would seem to mean that a small increase in temperature would reduce, not increase, the number of weather-related deaths.
UK based Lancet Published in a medical journal study A 2021 study found that 5,083,173 deaths worldwide were linked to “non-optimal annual temperatures”, but later explained that most of these were “cold-related” rather than “heat-related”.
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by LancetWorldwide, people are 9.4 times more likely to die from cold than from heat.
Over the past 20 years, heatstroke mortality has increased slightly (+0.21%) due to global warming, cold It more than doubled (-0.51 percent) over the same period.
Meanwhile, Jeff Masters of Yale Climate Connections write On Tuesday, he said the United States is “grossly unprepared for climate change.”
“Despite recent investments in adaptation, the United States remains woefully unprepared for the severe storms and floods that lie ahead,” he warns.
But here again, Masters ignores the encouraging news that fewer and fewer deaths from weather-related events occur each year, focuses only on property damage, and supports calls for a “transition from fossil fuels to clean energy production” whether people want it or not.
