Climate crisis? Fewer and fewer people are dying from climate disasters. There’s hype, and there’s reality – You like that?
Via P Gosselin
In yesterday’s postI mentioned how the climate crazes and the media are self-destructive, trying to make people think we are in crisis and that the only way is to declare a state of emergency, allocate and lock the door permanently.
But of course our weather and climate situation is not something we haven’t experienced. That’s what the weather does: act erratically. Today we present some charts to show that we are not in a “climate crisis”. Hat head: Marcell Oberfeld.
Mortality is too low
We first look at climate-related disaster deaths.
Figure 1: Climate-related disasters. Technology and fossil fuels have played an important role in this development.
The real crisis was 100 years ago.
Climate cost
Next, we look at the cost of social issues versus the cost of climate:
Figure 2. Source: Björn Lomborg
Climate change is relatively a minor issue, and so it’s not uncommon for many people to see climate change as something they don’t worry about. So much in everyone’s mind these days is the utter wreck of the economy for which the majority of climate warningers are responsible.
Record low flood deaths
Professor Lomborg also analyzed the number of people killed by floods in Europe, Figure 3:
Figure 3. Source: Björn Lomborg
Once again we have the technology and fossil fuels to thank for that successful development. But for alarmists, firefighters are always responsible for fires.
Cold kills more
When they are heatwaves, climate heatwaves that are always followed by several dozen deaths occur. But when there is a storm, they remain silent. And as Professor Lomborg shows again, in a chart that appeared in the Lancet, cold still kills more people today than heat:
Figure 4: Cold kills 9 times more people than heat. Source: Björn Lomborg
Wet Trends in Central Europe
Alarmists say Europe is suffering from drought like never before, and there will soon be a planetary emergency. However, when we look at the rainfall in Germany over the last 140 years, we see that the long-term trend is the opposite: wetter.
Figure 5: Abnormal annual rainfall (in percent). Source: DWD German National Weather Service
The past decade in Germany has been dry, and this is due to natural cycles. But in the long run, we see it getting wetter since industrialization began.
There are many other metrics that show we don’t need to worry about the crisis. What we really need to worry about are alarmists declaring a permanent state of emergency and depriving them of rights, truth and freedoms. If that happens, then the planet will surely go to hell in no time.
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