Climate Deaths Surprises
Climate continues to be a challenge, but climate related deaths have fallen over 99 percent since 1920. (1)
Bjorn Lomborg reported that climate related deaths averaged 485,000 a year in the 1920s. Between 2010 and 2019 there was an average of 18,362 annual climate related deaths. In 2020, the death rate dropped to 14,893. (2)
So, adjusted for population we went from 255.3 deaths per million in 1920 to 1.9 per million in 2020, a 99.25 percent decrease. In other words, for every climate related death in 2020, we had 133.6 deaths in 1920.