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Today in the morning,
writes Czech blogger Luboš Motl
I was stunned by the dishonesty of the professional climate alarmists again. Their moral defects are just shocking. It seems completely obvious to me that they must know that they are lying 24 hours a day.
This controversy is about the claim that the typhoon Haiyan was the
strongest tropical cyclone that ever made a landfall, and so on. You can
see this preposterous misinformation almost everywhere. For example,
start with the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Typhoon Haiyan.
All the mistakes are completely obvious and demonstrable, as I will
argue below, but it is impossible to even fix basic errors on the
Wikipedia page, or elsewhere. Such pages are being controlled by
obsessed hardcore climate alarmist trolls and crackpots. They are just
completely blind and deaf to any evidence and they revert any edit that
would try to fix the basic mistakes.
So let's look at some real numbers and the origin of the flawed numbers.
Make sure to consult the facts at the source.
In an article entitled "Global warming isn't to blame for the disaster in the Philippines," The Spectator quotes the eminent US-researcher Indur Goklany:
Currently many advocate spending trillions of dollars to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gases, in part to forestall hypothetical future increases in mortality from global warming induced increases in extreme weather events. Spending even a fraction of such sums on the numerous higher priority health and safety problems plaguing humanity would provide greater returns for human well-being.
[...T]he average annual deaths and death rates from all extreme weather events has declined by more than 90 per cent since 1920. This decline occurred despite a vast increase in the populations at risk and more complete coverage of extreme weather events. Goklany also shows that, globally, the number of deaths and death rates due to storms (including hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, typhoons) have declined by 47 per cent and 70 per cent respectively since the 1970s. [...]
People around the world who are exposed to natural hazards are increasingly relying on the effectiveness of warning systems. Disaster warning systems are most effective for natural catastrophes that develop gradually and relatively slowly, such as floods or tropical cyclones. Only two months ago, a fierce cyclone ripped along India’s east coast. It only killed 25 people as millions of people were evacuated in advance of the tropical cyclone, thus minimising the number of fatalities. 14 years earlier, over 10,000 people were killed in a similar cyclone that arrived without much warning.
Even poor countries such as Bangladesh, which is especially vulnerable to cyclones, have learnt how to prepare for the recurrent threat of cyclones and have succeeded in significantly reducing cyclone-related deaths. The two deadliest cyclones in Bangladesh’s history occurred in 1970 and 1991, killing 500,000 and almost 140,000 people respectively. In the last two decades, Bangladesh has introduced better warning systems that have helped to reduce deaths and injuries from cyclones significantly. A severe cyclone in 2007, for instance, caused 4,234 deaths, a 100-fold reduction compared with the devastating cyclone of 1970.
The source.
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