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Climate alarmists would have one believe that humans control Earth’s thermostat and threaten its ability to sustain life. This is false. Geologists have looked at the past history of the Earth’s changes and determined that the human impact on earth just doesn’t fit that scale of change. This thoroughly refutes the climate alarm narrative.

Ted Nordhaus, director of the Breakthrough Institute, goes through extreme weather event after extreme weather event using data and historical documentation in an article in The New Atlantis to show that climate change is not making weather-related disasters worse and that human lives are in fact improving even as the climate warms. Nordhaus uses historical documentation and data to make 3 main points: “Headlines blaming extreme weather on climate change don’t hold up,” there is “peril” in catastrophism, and “we’re actually safer than ever before.”

Nordhaus refutes the near constant drumbeat of environmental alarm that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more deadly. As he explains: "The list of the worst climate-related disasters in U.S. history, those that claimed a thousand or more American lives, is dominated by events that occurred before 1940. There were hurricanes in 1893, 1893 again, 1899, 1900, and 1928; heat waves in 1896 and 1936; floods in 1862 and 1889; and wildfires in 1871 and 1918. By contrast, since 1940 only three climate disasters have claimed a thousand or more lives: a heat wave in 1980, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Maria in 2017. The story is much the same globally. Two climate disasters have claimed a million or more lives, both of them floods in China, in 1887 and 1931. Tropical storms in South Asia claimed multiple hundreds of thousands of lives in 1737, 1839, and 1876. The more recent climate catastrophes with comparable death tolls, such as the cyclone that killed up to half a million people in what is now Bangladesh in 1970, and the typhoon and resulting dam failure that took a similar toll in China in 1975 amid the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, have reliably occurred at the intersection of poverty, dense population, inadequate infrastructure, and failing political institutions."

It should be noted that each of the pre-climate-hype disasters occurred at a time when the human population and population density were much lower than at present. Various types of extreme weather events or climate-related “disasters,” wildfires, cyclones, and floods, have, by and large, not become measurably more frequent or severe. Yes, there are many types of disasters, like hurricanes and floods, that are causing greater economic costs in many places than they used to. But this is almost entirely because the places that are most exposed to weather disasters have far more people and far more wealth in harm’s way than they used to. Even if there were no global warming, in other words, these areas would be much more at risk simply because they have much more to lose.

Once you factor out how many more people and how much more economic activity are in exposed areas, the economic costliness of weather extremes in recent decades has generally been flat or declining, not rising. The human costs, meanwhile, measured by deaths associated with climate and weather extremes, have fallen dramatically over the last century. Improving infrastructure and technology have made most people much more resilient to climate hazards today, even in relatively poor regions and even as the climate has warmed. Still, there has been no shortage of tragedies associated with extreme weather events in recent decades. But where they do occur, almost entirely due to failures of institutions and infrastructure, not the additional extremity of the weather event due to climate change.