Weather Fatalities

Figure 1: Weather Fatalities from 1940 to 2011
Figure Source: http://www.statschat.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/weatherfatalities1.jpg
This figure shows weather related fatalities over the past century. As you can see there has been start increases over the past few decades relating to heat and hurricane related natural disasters. With climate change comes an increase in extreme weather. Global warming and climate change are on the rise, and it is likely that we will experience more extreme natural disasters such as flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, and extreme heat. With these disasters comes increased risk of death. I think that over the next few decades (and probably longer) we will see spikes in deaths, such as is illustrated on this graph.