1\ Everyone seems to know that climate change is causing more forest fires and worse hurricanes
Leaving aside the question of how much of the warming since the Little Ice Age is due to humans, there's a big problem with these claims
They aren't true
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Leaving aside the question of how much of the warming since the Little Ice Age is due to humans, there's a big problem with these claims
They aren't true
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2\ Hurricanes are not getting worse, it's just that we now have minute-by-minute satellite and media coverage of them
Here's a century of Atlantic Accumulated Cyclone Energy. Do you see much of a trend?
Here's a century of Atlantic Accumulated Cyclone Energy. Do you see much of a trend?
3\ And because we've gotten richer (thanks to fossil fuels), we're better able to protect ourselves from hurricanes
Storm deaths are down something like 90% in the last hundred years, especially in poor countries:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Storm deaths are down something like 90% in the last hundred years, especially in poor countries:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
4\ What about fires? Since modern land management began in North America around the 1930s, area burned by forest fires is down by ~80%:
5\ And this is despite forested area being higher today than at any time in the last 100 years:
7\ Fewer fires + more prosperity (thanks to fossil fuels) of course means that fire deaths have fallen dramatically:
8\8 Outfits like the WHO want you to think every calamity is because we sullied ourselves with commerce and happiness. This is how all religion works
But the only link between COVID-19 and climate change is that they are both bedeviled by terrible data
But the only link between COVID-19 and climate change is that they are both bedeviled by terrible data
