“Climate change: it’s past time to count the environmental costs of economic growth” | Robert Delaney

My comments below at the site of yet another Robert Delaney doom and gloom article.

(Charts added later. Data from Our World in Data, Wikipedia, NOAA, UN):

Over the last century:

• Annual CO2 emissions have increased. So has global temperature (~0.8C)
• Sea level increases ~ 1 inch a decade (<~1 foot per century). 
• Still: Inhabited Pacific islands are growing not drowning:
  
  
  

• CO2 emissions from the US and EU have been falling since 2007 and 1979. China increased, now 47% greater than US + EU combined. This can't be ignored (but usually is). Australia TOTAL CO2 emissions are less that China’s ONE YEAR increase in emissions. 
  
  
  
• Therefore Not true to say "nothing being done". It has been.
• (Even more would have been done if nuclear-power electricity had not been demonised by Greens since 1960!)

Meantime: 

• Deaths from disasters (including drought, floods, wildfires, storms and landslides) decreased 98%
  
  
  
• Financial costs from disasters steady reduction (0.4% to 0.3% of GDP)
  
  
  
• Life expectancy increased: from under 40 to over 70

  

  From here

• GDP per capita increased: > 1 billion people lifted out of poverty, just since 1990 (UN).

Yet, somehow, all this good news points to "unraveling of the world economy” according to Delaney and “collapse of our societies” according to David Attenborough. ?. 

The data do not support Delaney’s Doom or Attenborough’s Apocalypse.