One of the lies climate hysterics tell is that weather disasters are increasing and causing more deaths. You can support any lie with statistics if you play with the data and/or present it in a misleading manner. Here is the truth, told more accurately. Weather deaths are actually dropping, on a population basis. If there are more people around when a hurricane, tornado or flood hits; there will be more deaths. Has nothing to do with the number or severity of events. So you have to adjust for population growth. And really, you should adjust even more. because population growth has been greatest in coastal areas where these events are more common. But you can see the steady decline in per million deaths over the last few decades, likely largely due to better warning systems. Certainly no support for the idea that there are more or worse weather disasters. But when did truth ever matter to environmental whackos.
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