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…
Category: Disaster
Theater of the Absurd: Indivisible’s Storm Show Rolls into Red Florida
If history teaches anything, it’s that complex problems don’t get solved by chanting slogans and waving signs. They get solved by adults in rooms with data, accountability, and a willingness…
Is Climate Change Increasing the Economic Cost of Disasters?
Far from Hurricane Milton being the storm of the century, as widely alleged in the media, it was no more than a middling Cat 3 storm, a run of the…
Climate Change has Decimated Societies Around the World
Anyone arguing CO2 is driving all the climate changes and all the extreme weather events are either very ignorant of these weather dynamics, or dishonest grifters trying to manipulate your…
Natural Disasters Are Not Increasing — Really
The fact that natural disasters are not increasing and not killing more people – due to climate change or any other fanciful cause — has once more been firmly entered…
21st Century Global Disasters
A new peer-reviewed paper out this week by Alimonti and Mariani asks whether global disasters have increased. Their answer is that they have not
EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database
“EM-DAT defines disasters as situations or events which overwhelm local capacity, necessitating a request for external assistance at the national or international level. Disasters are unforeseen and often sudden events…
Climate Crisis? Ever Fewer People Dying of Climate Disasters. There’s Hype, And There’s Reality
Today we present some charts to show that we are not in a “climate crisis”
EM-DAT Disaster Database Creating Data Disasters
These UN reports themselves are “Data Disasters” – in that the data upon which they are based is so flawed that it is not fit for purpose. The flaw is,…
Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards
Results show a clear decreasing trend in both human and economic vulnerability, with global average mortality and economic loss rates that have dropped by 6.5 and nearly 5 times, respectively,…
Next Doomsday “Crisis”: GLOBAL WATER SHORTAGE…Meat Lockdown Needed, Potsdam Scientist Suggests
That’s the aim: to turn everyone into vegetarians. The meat lockdown is in the pipeline.
NASA Analysis: Earth Is Safe From Asteroid Apophis for 100-Plus Years
Estimated to be about 1,100 feet (340 meters) across, Apophis quickly gained notoriety as an asteroid that could pose a serious threat to Earth when astronomers predicted that it would…
Climate Disaster Confusion
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Since May of 2019, Christopher Flavelle, has been covering “climate adaptation for The New York Times, focusing on how people, governments and businesses…
100 Years Later: The Flu
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen One hundred years have passed since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 swept around the world, circumnavigating at least twice between 1918 and 1920, killing…
Evidence Mounts Against Climate Prediction That Inspired ‘Day After Tomorrow’ Disaster Flick
From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor New evidence casts further doubt on model-based predictions that global warming could halt the Gulf Stream currents as part of an…
Inverse Hockey-Stick: climate related death risk for an individuals down 99% since 1920
Bjørn Lomborg writes on Facebook about some new and surprising data that turn climate alarmist claims upside down. Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters. This is clearly opposite…
New York Times Suggests Global Warming Might Be Worse Than Biblical Plagues
From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor 2:48 PM 11/19/2018 | Energy The New York Times suggested future global warming would be worse than the plagues unleashed on…
The Case for a US Disaster Review Board
Unlike other nations — such as the United Kingdom — the U.S. has no systematic process for investigating disasters and applying lessons learned to future mitigation. Based on my considerable…