Hurricane Season Death Toll.

It's not just the Katrina death toll that's being spun out of the news. It's the whole global warming death toll. More scientific minds than mine would need to figure out all the different ways global warming is killing us-- I know deaths from heat waves would count, but can't imagine what else-- 1000 or so people have been killed (so far) by a recent monsoon in India; not sure if global warming affects monsoons.

But it does intensify hurricanes, tropical storms and typhoons. Here's the death toll from this summer's crop, as near as I can figure.

Atlantic:
Hurricane Dennis -- 71 (source: Australiasevereweather.com)
Hurricane Emily --10* (source: AFP)
Hurricane Katrina -- 1211* (source: wikipedia)
Hurricane Ophelia -- 3 (source: wikipedia)
Hurricane Rita -- 100 (source: Yahoo News)
Hurricane Stan -- 236* (source: Staten Island Advance)

Pacific:
Typhoon Damrey-- 72* (source: Faux News)
Typhoon Haitang -- 7 (source: wikipedia)
Typhoon Khanun -- 14* (source: wikipedia)
Typhoon Longwang-- 50* (source: Faux News)
Typhoon Matsa (Gorio)--10 (source: Mail and Guardian)
Typhoon Mawar 2* (source:wikipedia)
Typhoon Nabi-- 18* (source: CNN)
Typhoon Talim-- 72* (source: BBC)
Tropical Storm Vicente-- 20* (source: wikipedia)

*count is an estimate, prefaced "at least", and/or expected to rise.

That's all the data I could find in two hours of searching. These numbers are not easy to unearth, final counts of the dead seem to be rare, and some of the sources are a little unreliable (eg Faux News). If anyone wants to add some data please do.