Originally Posted by
genejockey
A substantial number of people have already been killed, and a whole lot more have been seriously impacted by "weather" that would not have happened, or would not have been as severe without climate change. And sure, climate has changed during the billions of years this planet has been here. But never so fast as this. It's well beyond "gosh, we should be more circumspect about our carbon emissions."
People die every year from weather. We get flooding around here, and the typical story when there is a drowning is that (a) someone drove into deep water and didn't heed the warnings not to, or (b) they were doing something else stupid in the water and didn't heed the warnings to get out before it came or get to high ground. We have lake drownings every year, and it's virtually always due to people swimming off the shore without a life jacket and having been drinking.
Take a look at the stats on the following chart. The reality is that weather related deaths are not going up and have not been unusual. 797 deaths in 2021. 1096 in 2011, 1451 in 2005, 1362 in 1995. 446 in 2020. There is no anomaly in the death rate these days.
80years_2021.pdf (weather.gov)