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Disaster deaths can fall because warning systems, medicine, and infrastructure improved, not because the hazards disappeared (Bouwer, 2011; CRED, 2020).
Disaster loss trends do not prove disasters are getting weaker, and reported numbers can be distorted by incomplete disaster databases (Doocy et al., 2013; Guha-Sapir and Hoyois, 2020).
Economic losses from natural disasters have been increasing in recent decades, mainly because more people and more assets are in harm's way (Botzen, Deschenes and Sanders, 2019).
Drought is measured in different ways, and later reviews do not support a simple "nothing changed" story after 2012 (Seneviratne, 2012; Vicente-Serrano et al., 2022).
Ice sheet loss matters because it adds to sea level rise, and sea level rise has real impacts (IPCC, 2019; IPCC, 2021).
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