{"id":254778,"date":"2023-04-26T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254778"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:02:12","slug":"em-dat-miss-the-great-north-sea-floods-of-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254778","title":{"rendered":"EM-DAT Miss The Great North Sea Floods Of 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nWeather Disasters Getting Deadlier, Say Experts, As Death Tolls Plummet!<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We are told that weather disasters are now much more common, something which is apparently confirmed by the official disaster database, EM-DAT. What the UN don\u2019t tell you is that many disasters in the past were never officially logged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed if you look at floods in the UK, something which should be accurately recorded for a century and more, EM-DAT show that nobody died between 1952 and 1977. In contrast, 36 have died since 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/natural-disasters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now take a closer look, and see if you can find what is missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, the North Sea floods in 1953, recognised as one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit Britain, and which left 307 dead on the east coast alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-lincolnshire-64414388.amp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How on earth does a catastrophe like this get missed by EM-DAT?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How on earth does a catastrophe like this get missed by EM-DAT?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":254786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818902,691819089,691819088,691819087,691818126],"class_list":{"0":"post-254778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-em-dat","10":"tag-natural-disasters","11":"tag-north-sea-floods-1953","12":"tag-un","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0_65558533_canveyhouses.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14hk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":197593,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=197593","url_meta":{"origin":254778,"position":0},"title":"The Annual Disaster Fake News Story","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"27\/04\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Paul Homewood It\u2019s Whack-A-Mole time! 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