I will only resolve YES answers created by order of magnitude (edit: OR <10K, which includes negative numbers)
EG: 10K-100K, 100K-1M, 1M-10M, 10M-100M, etc.
Please do not add answers that deviate from this format.
I will not count effects that route through social effects of climate change. EG I will not count "climate-change related mass immigration increases social instability which is partially responsible for a war in which people die".
I will count effects like "climate change caused high temperatures in a region which caused people to be more likely to die from sickness."
If climate change seems to be reducing the number of deaths somehow in a way that doesn't route through social effects, I will factor that into my estimate.
I will only trade small amounts of mana in this market to create answers.
I would greatly appreciate operationalization improvement feedback/questions about my operationalization.
Estimate starts at Jan 1, 2000.
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Is this about net or gross deaths? Third paragraph from the bottom suggests net. In that case, negative numbers don't seem super improbable (e.g. fig 3 of https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24487-w ), but I wouldn't know how to add them without deviating from the format.
@StevenK I want to count lives saved! EG if "fewer people died from extreme cold" dominates the estimate of number of human deaths, I want my estimate to be negative.
@NoaNabeshima Another question: This market probably isn't about all climate change since prehistorical times, right? Is there an implicit "since 1900" or "since 2000", for example?
@StevenK @evergreenemily @CromlynGames @ShadowyZephyr @HenriThunberg
Any starting date you were implicitly using when trading on this market?
@NoaNabeshima Nothing well-defined, maybe vaguely like 2000, but I didn't spend much mana here and I endorse choosing a starting date that you think works well with the question.
@NoaNabeshima Good question - I think I was also implicitly thinking around 2000. Seems easier to measure.
Total change in temperature deaths since 2000 seems to be a wash, or maybe a slight decrease, but there were 475,000 deaths because of natural disasters between 2000 and 2020, some percentage of which are caused by climate change.
Would stuff like "climate change caused a crop failure here, causing mass starvation" or "climate change caused hurricanes to become more frequent and severe, leading to X hurricane-related deaths in the U.S. between 2020 and 2050" count for the purposes of this market? They seem direct enough, but I wanna be sure.