Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events GOING DOWN

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1. Date: 2008-07-07 02:38:32
Subject: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events GOING DOWN
From: "0Z0NB" <0...@d...com> Search message by this author

EPW Blog

July 6, 2008

From: wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com

During our discussion of the preposterous news story from Pravda,
claiming this headline: "Earth begins to kill people for changing its
climate" a scientist dropped in to provide us some insight into his
latest paper.

It was highly relevant at the time since one of the repeating themes we
see in the mainstream (and not so mainstream) media is the attribution
of increasing death due to severe weather events to "global warming".

But that is not supported by the real data, it is a false premise.

In the paper, Indur Goklany examines the worldwide trends and makes some
surprising discoveries base of examining data from the World Health
Organization, NOAA, and other sources.

Some have claimed that, all else being equal, climate change will
increase the frequency or severity of weather-related extreme events
(see, e.g., IPCC 2001; Patz 2004; MacMichael and Woodruff 2004). This
study examines whether losses due to such events (as measured by
aggregate deaths and death rates2) have increased globally and for the
United States in recent decades. It will also attempt to put these
deaths and death rates into perspective by comparing them with the
overall mortality burden, and briefly discuss what trends in these
measures imply about human adaptive capacity.

The most telling graph is the first one in the paper:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3845
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Warmest Regards

Bonzo

"Consensus is neither a scientific fact nor important in science, but it
is very important in politics." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the
Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor Of
Climatology, University of Winnipeg

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2. Date: 2008-07-08 00:50:41
Subject: Re: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events GOING DOWN
From: "0Z0BN" <0...@d...com> Search message by this author

"Earl Evleth" <e...@w...fr> wrote in message
news:C497ACF6.12FEDE%evleth@wanadoo.fr...
> On 7/07/08 4:38, in article 487181a1$...@d...tpgi.com.au, "0Z0NB"
> <0...@d...com> wrote:
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>> The most telling graph is the first one in the paper:
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>> http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3845
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> That is a junk science source. The figure shows
> 22,000 dead a year on the average.
>

You fool!
The sources are WHO, NOAA etc! not CFP!!!

QUOTE: In the paper, Indur Goklany examines the worldwide trends and
makes some
surprising discoveries base of examining data from the World Health
Organization, NOAA, and other sources.

Warmest Regards

Bonzo

"Consensus is neither a scientific fact nor important in science, but it
is very important in politics." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the
Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor Of
Climatology, University of Winnipeg