As the whole climate hysteria continues to unravel, more good news on the climate front....

According to preliminary data, the world death rate from natural disasters in 2025 was the lowest ever recorded at 0.8 deaths per 100,000 people. And the trend continues...

in 1960 it was >320 per 1,000,000;

in 1970, >80;

in 1980, ~3;

in 1990, ~1.3

The climate hysterics are constantly talking about climate tipping points which will create more hurricanes, floods, droughts etc. But Mother Earth has her own agenda.

Speaking of agendas, a paper from 2024 was released with great hoopla showing that the economic impact of climate change by 2050 would be enormous. It was peer-reviewed and all, so it must be true. Well Nature has just withdrawn the paper because of flaws in their data. Of course, as usual with these things, the original (erroneous) paper got massive coverage. The retraction?...not so much.

And as the hysteria dies down, scientists are feeling more comfortable about publishing heretical data. For example, it now seems that the oceans are cooler now than at any time in the past 4.5 million years and have been on a cooling trend for all that time.

Similarly scientists are now saying they're now see any climate tipping points on the horizon.

The COP30 meeting was a disaster.

Tracking the unravelling of the whole scare will be fascinating.

Talking about the weather and all that hysteria -
Unfortunately I can’t remember where so I can't reference it (it was probably in one of those woke, left wing, Marxist, pinkie, commie rags that Emperor Trump is either suing for billions, or threatening to sue) where in a travel writer reported the fact that an increasing number of the big international travel companies have had to adjust their departure dates and tour itineraries. It seems tourists are becoming wary of going to popular tourist spots during what have been traditional ‘peak season’ due to the high chance that their holiday will be spoiled or severely compromised by adverse weather events. And, no, they don’t want to travel simply because it’s too crowded, it’s because there is a high chance of copping crap weather. It would appear that the tourists with the $$$’s have spoken with their wallets and the tour companies have listened.
Lucky we know it’s all a big con, and neither the tourists nor the travel companies have a clue.

Ah, so this is where that post was supposed to appear, mhaze!

Here's the response I prepared earlier:

//According to preliminary data, the world death rate from natural disasters in 2025 was the lowest ever recorded…//

Long-run declines in disaster mortality overwhelmingly reflect improved forecasting, infrastructure, emergency response, and wealth. They are not a proxy for hazard intensity or future risk. This distinction has been standard in the literature for decades.

//The climate hysterics are constantly talking about climate tipping points…//

Tipping-point discussions concern physical system thresholds, not short-term disaster death rates. Declining mortality does not speak to the existence or absence of such thresholds.

//A paper from 2024 was released… Nature has just withdrawn the paper…//

Retractions are a normal part of scientific self-correction. A single withdrawn paper does not invalidate a field supported by multiple independent lines of evidence. Treating retraction as narrative collapse misunderstands how science works.

//It now seems that the oceans are cooler now than at any time in the past 4.5 million years…//

Claims about deep-time trends over millions of years do not meaningfully address rapid forcing on century timescales. It is a category error to conflate paleoclimate baselines with modern anthropogenic change.

//Scientists are now saying they're not seeing any climate tipping points on the horizon.//

Vague appeals to what "scientists are saying" aren’t evidence. If there’s a substantive shift, it needs to be specified, cited, and shown to overturn existing constraints and attribution studies.

(Sorry, it was a bit anticlimactic the second time around.)