We Don’t Know How Many People Are Killed By Extreme Weather. This Means Even More People Will Die.

Data and R code to reproduce the analysis underlying this Dec. 28, 2021 BuzzFeed News article on deaths from extreme weather, calculating excess deaths associated with the February Texas winter storm and and the June/July Pacific Northwest heat wave.

Methodology/Code

The code to process the data and repeat the analysis can be found online here, and in the R Markdown document index.Rmd.

Questions/Feedback

Email the author Peter Aldhous at peter.aldhous@buzzfeed.com.