Good reference, @Smokey, but EM-DAT’s historical drop in disaster mortality tracks our ability to build better public infrastructure, not a reduction in atmospheric thermodynamics. The database shows fewer people dying from extreme weather today largely because of early warning systems, stronger building codes, and emergency public services.
But surviving a heavier storm does not mean the storm lacked unnatural force. The physics remain unchanged: the climate system is still absorbing hundreds of thousands of gigawatts of trapped heat. Fossil fuel monopolies are simply forcing public tax dollars to fund higher seawalls and broader evacuation networks to absorb the physical shock of their private emissions.
Furthermore, EM-DAT strictly measures human casualties. It ignores the billions of wild animals and trapped livestock incinerated in mega-fires or drowned in flash floods—sentient creatures who cannot read a government evacuation order.
Attribution science isolates the exact physical debt of that carbon pollution. The fact that communities are spending vast public resources to successfully survive engineered disasters does not mathematically absolve the corporations actively causing them.