{"id":280929,"date":"2023-09-28T15:03:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280929"},"modified":"2023-09-28T15:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:03:57","slug":"climate-alarmism-demoted-in-one-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280929","title":{"rendered":"Climate Alarmism Demoted in One Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From\u00a0Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe popular climate discussion \u2026 looks at man as a destructive force for climate livability \u2026 because we use fossil fuels. In fact, the truth is the exact opposite; we don\u2019t take a safe climate and make it dangerous; we take a dangerous climate and make it safe. High-energy civilization, not climate, is the driver of climate livability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels<\/em> (2014), pp. 126\u2013127.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Physical climate change in terms of human welfare defines the debate between the alarmists and skeptics. And a good way to begin that debate is to put climate livability and nature in proper context. The quotation above does just that, tearing away the deep ecology notion<\/a> that nature is benign, optimal, and fragile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is one graphic, one data series, that makes Epstein\u2019s point \u2014 and puts the climate alarmists and forced energy transformationists on their heels. It is regularly presented with updates from Bjorn Lomborg. \u201cClimate Alarmism vs. Data<\/a>,\u201d he titles the inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The Age of Climate Disaster is Here<\/a>\u2019 [Foreign Affairs]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data<\/strong>: No Climate-related deaths dropped 98% over a century<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 climate deaths likely below the lowest 2020s average<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=862193625265642&set=a.266716694813341\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters \u201cFact Check<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above chart is a hard one for the climate alarmists to buck. But try they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFact Check: Drop in climate-related disaster deaths not evidence against climate \u2018emergency<\/a>\u2019\u201d, reads the Reuters Fact Check headline of September 19, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Social media posts are recirculating a bar chart that depicts falling numbers of deaths due to weather-related disasters over the last century alongside comments suggesting that the significance of climate-driven weather changes is exaggerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mortality, however, is not a useful measure of the number or severity of weather-related events including the floods, droughts, storms, wildfire, and extreme temperatures listed in the graph, experts told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although deaths from these disasters have decreased, due in part to better forecasting and preparedness, the number, intensity, and cost of climatic and meteorological hazards have all increased over the last hundred years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Well, what did free market adaptation from wealth and fossil fuels have to do with that? The answer is a lot<\/em>. But Reuters misdirects and obfuscates with these points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • It\u2019s improved resilience rather than fewer disasters<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Climate change negatively affects health in other ways<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The IPCC says with confidence that heat waves and weather extremes are increasing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • There are more damages in terms of dollars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The Verdict?<\/strong> \u201cMisleading. Disaster mortality is not a useful metric for quantifying climate change, and climate-related disasters have increased in number, intensity, and economic cost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Or maybe not \u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cThe popular climate discussion \u2026 looks at man as a destructive force for climate livability \u2026 because we use fossil fuels. In fact, the truth is the exact opposite; we don\u2019t take a safe climate and make it dangerous; we take a dangerous climate and make it safe. High-energy civilization, not climate, is the driver of climate livability.\u201d
    \n\u2013 Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (2014), pp. 126\u2013127.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":280933,"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":[691819134,691818056,691818152,691821642],"class_list":{"0":"post-280929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-alarmism","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-emergency","11":"tag-ipcc-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0371764703_862193618598976_7227497400339540244_n.jpg?fit=1230%2C1151&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1b57","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":413759,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=413759","url_meta":{"origin":280929,"position":0},"title":"Paris Climate Accord\u2019s Demise\u2014James Hansen was Right","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"18\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Paris Climate Agreement turns ten this month. 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