That *opinion* article is by a literal anti-climate-science hack. He cites none of his numbers, and it's because they're complete lies. Here's some actual cite

That *opinion* article is by a literal anti-climate-science hack. He cites none of his numbers, and it's because they're complete lies. Here's some actual cited evidence: The WHO fact sheet on heat and health [1] says: > The number of people exposed to extreme heat is growing exponentially due to climate change in all world regions. Heat-related mortality for people over 65 years of age increased by approximately 85% between 2000–2004 and 2017–2021 (1). > Between 2000–2019 studies show approximately 489 000 heat-related deaths occur each year, with 45% of these in Asia and 36% in Europe (2). In Europe alone in the summer of 2022, an estimated 61 672 heat-related excess deaths occurred (3). High intensity heatwave events can bring high acute mortality; in 2003, 70 000 people in Europe died as a result of the June–August event. In 2010, 56 000 excess deaths occurred during a 44–day heatwave in the Russian Federation. [1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-heat-and-health https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-cha... The author claims: > A century ago, almost half a million people died on average each year from storms, floods, droughts, wildfires and extreme temperatures. Over the next 10 decades, global annual deaths from these causes declined 96%, to 18,000. In 2020, they dropped to 14,000. In no universe is this remotely true, if he's attempting to be accurate about climate deaths. The US alone had 4,000 direct heat exposure deaths annually as of 2020, and an average 47,500 cold exposure deaths. As in, people literally dying of extreme heat and cold exposure. That doesn't include every other climate impact death, and, once again, that's US only. That's from Yale [2], btw: > In a new study, YSPH researchers found that while cold weather continues to be a leading contributor to U.S. deaths annually, deaths linked to heat exposure surged more than 50% over the past two decades. Cold-related deaths rose from about 44,000 between 2000 and 2009 to more than 47,500 between 2010 and 2020, a 7% increase. Meanwhile, deaths associated with high temperatures climbed by 53%, from an annual average of 2,670 between 2000 and 2009 to more than 4,000 between 2010 and 2020. [2] https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/warming-us-climate-linked-to-rising-deaths-from-heat/ https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/warming-us-climate-linked... Globally, heat deaths alone in 2023 were over 178,000 [3]. [3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675825003133 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266667582... I'll leave debunking the rest of this misinformation to others, as this comment is already long enough.