How many more once in a lifetime storms are we going to have this year?, page-25

I'm sorry, but you can't hold me responsible for your deficient education. As a university educated chemical engineer (we do an awful lot of maths) I can see a huge disconnect in the data. The number of people killed is a fact - the definition of a disaster is an opinion. We've had an almost 50,000% increase in natural disasters (~5 per year 1900 to ~450 per year in 2000) but a >80% decrease in deaths in that time? Can you not see a disconnect in the data somewhere?