Last September, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres claimed climate, weather, and water-related disasters had increased by 500% over the last 50 years. According to the political and environmental science writer Professor Roger Pielke Jr, this is “pure misinformation.”
He goes on to suggest that “you will never find a more obvious and egregious wrong claim in public discussions from a more important institution.”
Matters were made even worse, in Pielke’s view, because the false notion was “legitimized” by none other than the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), one of the founding bodies of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [emphasis, links added]
Pielke refers to the graph above based on figures from CRED EM-DAT, the same database that the WMO and Guterres based their false claim on.
Of course, 2022 is not fully complete, but total disasters will be around the 330 mark, and this will be similar to the average for the last decade. Compared with the 2000s, the numbers are about 10% lower.
Based on these data, said by CRED to be reliable since 2000, Pielke notes there is no evidence that the number of global and climate disasters is increasing.
“That means that – undeniably – there is no evidence to support another false claim by the UN that, ‘The number of disaster events is projected to reach 560 a year – or 1.5 each day, statistically speaking – by 2030’.”
Preliminary estimates suggest that around 11,000 people lost their lives this year as a result of weather and climate-related disasters, a figure around the average for the last decade.
The overall death rate was about 0.14 people per million and was one of the five lowest annual death rates since data were compiled. Pielke ventures that the figure is the lowest in all recorded human history.
Just two decades ago, the figure was 20 times greater at 2.9 per million. The diminishing human impact of disasters is a science and policy success that is “widely under-appreciated.”
In fact, as the Daily Sceptic has repeatedly shown, such inconvenient facts are largely ignored in most mainstream media, even as individual weather events are relentlessly catastrophized in the interest of upending society, via the Net Zero political project.
Weather catastrophization is now the main climate propaganda tool since global warming went off the boil over two decades ago. Pielke noted that he had spent 30 years working to understand trends in disasters.
“Along the way I’ve observed a concerted and successful effort by climate advocates to create and spread disinformation about disasters, knowing full well that virtually all journalists and scientists will stay silent and allow the false information to spread unchecked — and sometimes they will even help to amplify it,” he wrote.
“I am curious. When are journalists going to start reporting the facts about disasters, and call out disinformation,” he asked.
Don’t hold your breath just yet professor, might be the reply. On September 14th, the Daily Sceptic reported that four leading Italian scientists had undertaken a major review of historical climate trends, and concluded that declaring a ‘climate emergency’ was not supported by the data.
Our report went viral, was viewed over 25,000 times, retweeted over 9,000 times, and eventually made its way into other media outlets.
It led to the inevitable ‘fact-check’. State-owned Agence France-Presse reported that “top climate experts” said the paper “cherry-picked” data.
One of the experts was Friederike Otto who works out of Imperial College London and is at the forefront of the pseudoscientific ‘attribution’ of single weather events to humans allegedly causing the climate to change.
She said that “of course” the authors were not writing the article in good faith. “If the journal cares about science they should withdraw it loudly and publicly, saying that it should have never been published,” she said.
As a result of this pressure, the publisher of the paper Springer Nature made the following announcement:
“Readers are alerted that the conclusions reported in this manuscript are currently under dispute. The journal is investigating the issue.”
Of course, all science is “under dispute” (except, it seems, the ‘settled’ science of climate change), but that is not the reason why this shameful announcement was made. It remains on the paper to this day.
Pielke concludes that planet Earth is a place of extremes. Hurricanes, floods, drought, heatwaves, and other types of extreme weather are normal and always have been.
The ability of societies to prepare and recover from extreme events is a remarkable story of policy success – deaths related to disasters have plummeted from millions per year a century ago to thousands per year over the past decade.
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António Guterres is an old commie. Lying is a way of life for him.
Guterres is a greasy liar. He’s using numerical alliteration to create a slogan, 500% in 50 years, for simpletons. I have a beef with the author, Chris Morrison. He’s found 50 ways to say “lie” without using the word. Why so polite when reporting on the vulgarities of social anarchists? Unelected creeps like Soros, Gore, Guterres, Kerry et al are out to make our daily lives a struggle. Liars all.
We need to remember that when the warming wasn’t going as predicted “global warming” was replaced by “climate change.” There were just too many agendas riding on the movement to be abandoned. The contention was that warming may not be happening as predicted, but climate change is causing more extreme weather events. Like the warming, this politically motivated assertion isn’t correct. The media makes the most of it by claiming each and every hurricane is caused by climate change, while ignoring the ten year hurricane drought when not a single major hurricane made landfall in US mainland.
Antonio Goebbels believes a lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth and if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself. He must also know propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run……………..
The United Nations was never created for peace just World Government and this Global Warming/Climate Change is just a excuse for them to scare the whole world into surrendering their soventry and join the New Word Order all under the UN,s Thumb