Lying about deaths from heat and natural disasters

Some self-proclaimed 'experts' claim that speculated 'climate-change-caused' heat waves are 'still sickening and killing so many workers across the United States.'

A simple look at the data shows a quite different story.Death rates from extreme temperatures in the United States (below left) and the global death rate from disasters (below right) show a large decline in both rates over the past one hundred years (about as far back as the data go), about 90% declines in death rates.

Before deciding how OSHA can 'save' lives that do not appear to be in jeopardy, maybe OSHA should try checking out their rhetoric and checking in with reality. 'Expert' blogs such as this give rhetoric a bad name. They need to try science, and critical thinking.

OSHA would do better by examining the global environmental impact of the Tonga volcanic eruption, not because the volcano killed many people during its eruption. Instead, the eruption -- 100 times more powerful than them and-made Hiroshima atomic bomb -- is just one more example of how Mother Nature is not best viewed as an altruistic, harmless victim of man's prosperity. Mother Nature attacks life, at times in very big ways, and Covid is just one more example.

And fossil fuels have been a significant part of the solution to poverty since its adoption triggered the Industrial Revolution. Today, progressive, virtue-signaling pols are pushing people back into extreme poverty, joblessness, hunger and death by depriving them of critical fossil fuels and global trade and markets that facilitate the distribution of fuel. All this done in the name of a 'two-week' global lockdown now in its 22nd month, and to curb the level of helpful carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the gas that fuels plant growth, including the life-saving, renewable crop production that feeds the world and makes a mockery of Malthusian predictions as to mass starvation. Again, follow the facts, not the forecasts. Look critically at the data rather than spout politically correct rhetoric.