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And yet deaths due to climate events have never been lower: https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-activists-disasters-fire-storms-deaths-change-cop26-glasgow-glo

• Bhilai 4y ago
  Opinion pieces (specially from WSJ opinion section) are far from fact based journalism.
  • gadders 4y ago
    Did you check the author name and credentials?
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• throwaway894345 4y ago
  I don't think the big climate change risk is deaths directly from disasters as much as it is starvation, poverty, disease, unrest, etc brought on by things like crop failures. The war in Ukraine prevented the country from getting its grain to market, which drove up grain prices beyond what poor countries could afford, creating a food crisis (this also impacted the poor in more developed countries, as food prices rose). A climate-induced crop failure in a major agricultural region could have the same effect.
• anigbrowl 4y ago
  That's largely because we have much better weather monitoring and prediction tools than we used to do, so we are able to measure, warn, and deploy resources with a fair degree of confidence. Bjorn Lomborg's whole deal is to take the focus off the frequency/severity of the problem and instead celebrate the quality of our disaster response. He also touts how disaster response/mitigation is but a small part of impressively growing GDP, even though things like forest destruction from wildfires aren't well-reflected in GDP figures.