{"id":391012,"date":"2025-07-27T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=391012"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:52:22","slug":"new-record-set-for-deaths-from-climate-and-weather-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=391012","title":{"rendered":"New Record Set For Deaths From Climate And Weather Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Manhattan Contrarian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Francis Menton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the first half of 2025, a new record was set for the number of deaths caused by climate and weather disasters. Can you guess what that record was?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you read left-wing media sources, and believe anything they say, you might think that the recent record has something to do with a large and growing number of deaths. Recent articles in sources like CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and CBS News all explicitly claim that climate change is making weather events \u201cdeadlier,\u201d or leading to increasing numbers of deaths, or some variation of that same message. I\u2019m sure if you checked thirty such \u201cmainstream\u201d news sources over the past year, all thirty of them would have pieces parroting that same narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore you might be surprised by the actual record that has been set: The first half of 2025 (January to June) has seen the fewest number of deaths from climate and weather disasters of any first half year this century.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just curious if you\u2019ve seen that information reported in any source other than here? (I came across the information at Roger Pielke, Jr.\u2019s Honest Broker Substack<\/a>. He in turn cites the Global Catastrophe Recap for the first half of 2025 issued by insurance broker Aon<\/a> and the EM-DAT data base<\/a> of catastrophe losses.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before getting to the details, let\u2019s consider what you might believe if all you read or see is the usual \u201cmainstream\u201d sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n