Is it any wonder that people are confused about global warming when the BBC puts out false information? See here: Insiders say Justin Rowlatt is more 'campaigner' than reporter | Daily Mail Online
Last week, it was reported that the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) had upheld complaints about two claims made in the BBC's Panorama programme on November 3 last year by reporter Justin Rowlatt.
First, it wasn't true that the death toll from natural disasters is rising. In fact, the opposite is true.
According to ourworldindata.com, the number of deaths globally from natural disasters has tumbled each decade for the past century, apart from a small blip in the 2000s, from an average of 524,000 a year in the 1920s to just 45,000 in the 2010s — despite a booming global population.
The ECU also ruled that Rowlatt's claim that southern Madagascar was 'on the brink of the world's first climate-induced famine' was incorrect, as other factors were involved.
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/extreme-weather-climate-change-deaths/
ReplyDeleteAn estimated 480,000 people were killed by roughly 11,000 extreme weather events between 2000 and 2019, according to a report by the think tank Germanwatch.
The catastrophic toll of extreme weather falls primarily on developing countries that lack the infrastructure and resources to cope with the impact. In fact, eight of the 10 countries most affected by extreme weather during this period are categorized by Germanwatch as low- or lower-income.
CO2 increase in the atmosphere has changed our weather. Extreme was predicted to increase and the data around this has confirmed the prediction. The poor suffer the most from this since they do not have the funds to adapt to these situations.
Extreme weather has always been with us and caused death and destruction. The point is that this has not increased in the recent past. You are not correct to say that it has. The poor have always suffered the most.
DeleteThe countries and areas most affected by extreme weather over this period were Puerto Rico, Myanmar, Haiti, the Philippines, Mozambique, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, and Nepal.
ReplyDeleteExtreme weather events are devastating in their immediate impact and often for years afterward.
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in 2017, killing nearly 3,000 people, displacing tens of thousands more, and destroying infrastructure throughout the island. The economic cost of the storm was estimated at $43 billion.
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/extreme-weather-climate-change-deaths/
President Trump was our president at the time and did very poorly at coming to the aid of Puerto Rico. Not only did our lowest income territory get severly damaged, our hostile Republican congress did a really poor job of support when this happened.
I refer to my previous comment.
ReplyDeletehttps://e360.yale.edu/digest/extreme-weather-events-have-increased-significantly-in-the-last-20-years
ReplyDeleteAnd the poor have suffered more because of it. You and I can stay safe, while the poor are much less safe.
Compared to early 19th century, I would hope we would do better than then due to a better information system in preventing deaths of our citizens. At the same time we have increasing extreme weather events that can potentially take more lives. Just the same, we have to deal with the cost of more extreme weather. Its very clear by the IPPC that we need to get off of co2 quickly. Should we decide to be sluggish in quitting co2 pollution, the poor will suffer all the more.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.seforall.org/news/1-in-7-people-globally-at-high-risk-due-to-lack-of-access-to-cooling
1 in 7 people globally at high risk due to lack of access to cooling, with numbers set to rise by 2030
$3 per day is common in some of these coutries that clearly have less shelter from extreme weather like heat waves. This is from our pollution of co2.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/05/18/heat-climate-change-india-pakistan/
CAPITAL WEATHER GANG
Climate change has made India’s relentless heat 100 times more likely
In northwest India and Pakistan, a U.K. analysis finds heat that used to occur every 300 years may now happen about every three
By Kasha Patel and Niha Masih
May 18, 2022 at 2:31 p.m. EDT
When you look at how these predictions have been made you can see it is based on computer modeling - the same models that have failed to reproduce the past climate changes accurately, and which predict much greater warming than we are currently getting. See this link: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/climate-science/attribution/indian_heatwave_2022.pdf
ReplyDeleteThen why is the climate having more extreme weather than in the past. Appears to me the models informed us of a warmer more extreme weather climate.
DeleteMy point is that there is no more extreme weather than in the past. The models are unreliable. The actual statistics prove them to be wrong. The following article explains this: https://climatescience.blogspot.com/2020/06/little-change-in-extreme-weather-says.html
DeleteMy source says they are increasing. IPPC predicted in the past weather extremes will increase and the data shows it. The source is in one of the above posts. If the oceans are warming, water vapor in the atmosphere is increasing and water vapor increase fuels more extreme storms. That is just plain simple physics.
DeleteOne important point to understand is that far more people die as a result of extreme cold than extreme heat. So a slightly warmer world will actually save thousands of lives, particularly as it has been milder winters that have been occurring rather than hotter summers.
ReplyDeleteSlightly warmer is more than slightly. Artic amplification warms the northern artic twice as fast as the rest of the world. Melting perma frost releases more methane and carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere adding more warming gases providing a feedback upon our already human gases added. Desertification expands making more areas of the earth uninhabital. Crops move northward causing billions of dollars if not trillions of adaptation cost to farming. Sea level rise is accelerating, causing adaptation in the trillions by 2050. The faster we drop fossil fuels, the less damage economically and plant and animial life on earth surviving. Political tensions will be exacerbated in the weaker governments leading to wars. Syria is just such a long term termoil.
DeleteWhat you are doing is called cherry picking. Only looking at a small little detail and ignoring the big picture.