Weather Disasters Getting Deadlier, Say Experts, As Death Tolls Plummet!

[rangerrebew]

Weather Disasters Getting Deadlier, Say Experts, As Death Tolls Plummet!
MARCH 18, 2023
 
By Paul Homewood

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https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/10/1075142

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https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-united-nations-natural-disasters-fa1d16ad7d59c7629bb1a9a955a494b0
 
Every year official agencies like the UN and WMO tell us that weather disasters keep getting more frequent. Their evidence, they say, comes from the disaster database WM-DAT.

And every year I and others inconveniently point out that the apparent increase is not due to disasters becoming more common, but that we are now much better at recording them.

EM-DAT know this full well, because they wrote about it in their Annual Review for 2006:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/03/18/weather-disasters-getting-deadlier-say-experts-as-death-tolls-plummet/

[Timber Rattler]

It's a bunch of nonsense.  I've researched some Natural History, and the big storms and droughts of the past were the same as those of today, perhaps worse in some cases.  What's changed is that people have started living in larger cities in the MidWest ("Tornado Alley") and building more densely along coastal areas, especially in Florida, the Carolinas, and the Northeast. 

Also modern weather forecasting and record keeping only began in the late 19th century, leaving thousands of years of weather unrecorded upon which to compare.

And there's a reason that Hurricane, West Virginia is thus named:

https://www.hurricanewv.com/government/new-about-hurricane/

See for example too:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/killers.html

http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/pre1900s/1502/

https://www.weather.gov/okx/1938HurricaneHome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_England_hurricanes#:~:text=17th%20century,-The%20estimated%20track&text=August%2025%2C%201635%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Great,magnitude%20was%20the%201938%20hurricane.

[LMAO]

It's a bunch of nonsense.  I've researched some Natural History, and the big storms and droughts of the past were the same as those of today, perhaps worse in some cases.  What's changed is that people have started living in larger cities in the MidWest ("Tornado Alley") and building more densely along coastal areas, especially in Florida, the Carolinas, and the Northeast. 

Also modern weather forecasting and record keeping only began in the late 19th century, leaving thousands of years of weather unrecorded upon which to compare.

And there's a reason that Hurricane, West Virginia is thus named:

https://www.hurricanewv.com/government/new-about-hurricane/

See for example too:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/killers.html

http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/pre1900s/1502/

https://www.weather.gov/okx/1938HurricaneHome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_England_hurricanes#:~:text=17th%20century,-The%20estimated%20track&text=August%2025%2C%201635%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Great,magnitude%20was%20the%201938%20hurricane.

Your post reminds me a conversation I had years ago were someone insisted to me that  more people are feeling the impact of global warming

I reminded him that’s because there are more people to feel the impact

[mountaineer]

And there's a reason that Hurricane, West Virginia is thus named

For the record, it's pronounced "HUR-uh-kun," not HUR-a-cane." The last syllable rhymes with gun. I don't know why. Oh yes, it's W.Va.