Wrong, World Meteorological Organization, There Is No Evidence “Climate Change Impacts Grip[ed] Globe in 2024”

While the narrative is emotionally compelling for low-information readers, it falsely conflates short-term weather events with long-term climate trends. - Anthony Watts
The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) article, “Climate Change Impacts Grip Globe in 2024,” paints a dire picture of a planet spiraling into chaos, with extreme weather events attributed to anthropogenic climate change...

• One of the core flaws in the WMO article is its failure to differentiate between weather and climate...
• In short, the WMO’s approach is highly misleading, using weather events as propaganda tools to sell the narrative of a climate emergency...
• In the 1920s, the global average annual death toll from such disasters was approximately 485,000. Today, that number has fallen by over 98%, to fewer than 10,000 annually...

Figure. The graph demonstrates a vast improvement in human mortality related to all extreme weather events over a 100-year span from 1920 to 2021. Source: Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, data from International Disaster Database published in ScienceDirect...