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Good News! Extreme Weather Is Killing Less People Than Ever Before

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Kay Smythe News and Commentary Writer
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Deaths from extreme weather and aviation accidents are the lowest they’ve ever been, according to an analysis released Monday.

Analysis from the Good News Network found that between 2021 and 2022, the rate of fatalities aboard aircrafts globally was just 0.24 per one million flights, or about 1 in 4,240,000. The authors argued the number was likely even lower, as the accounting method used factors such as hard landings, tail swipes and runway collisions that lead to the deaths of ground crew workers and “others.”

When looking at decadal trends in deaths from natural disasters such as wildfires, volcanic and earthquake activity, all rates have dropped significantly since the 1920s, according to the Good News Network. In the case of extreme weather, temperatures and other weather-related phenomena, deaths are almost non-existent compared to the last hundred years of human history.

Even when accounting for all of the natural disasters caused by extreme weather, the global average is just 0.16 deaths per 100,000 people at present. It’s unclear how the deadly start to 2023 will impact this trend.

More than 60 people were killed in the last two weeks of 2022 from extreme weather across the U.S. continent, mostly in New York State as a huge snow storm rolled through during the Christmas holiday. At least 18 people were killed in California after back-to-back extreme weather events deluged the state with heavy snow and intense flooding. (RELATED: Check Out The National Weather Service’s Amazing Word Gymnastics Over California Drought Questions)

So the World Economic Forum and other unelected globalist enterprises can take a chill pill and stop blaming climate change for excess deaths around the world. It turns out the weather isn’t trying to murder us quite the way we keep being told it is.