Meest dodelijke typhoons:
| 1 | Thelma/Uring 1991 | 1991, November 4–7 | 5,101-8,000[17] |
| 2 | Haiyan/Yolanda 2013 | 2013, November 7–8 | 3,976 |
| 3 | Bopha/Pablo 2012 | 2012, December 2–9 | 1,901 |
| 4 | Angela Typhoon | 1867, September 22 | 1,800[18] |
| 5 | Winnie 2004 | 2004, November 27–30 | 1,593 |
| 6 | October 1897 Typhoon | 1897, October 7 | 1,500[18] |
| 7 | Ike/Nitang 1984 | 1984, September 3–6 | 1,492 |
| 8 | Fengshen/Frank 2008 | 2008, June 20–23 | 1,410 |
| 9 | Durian/Reming 2006 | 2006, November 29-December 1 | 1,399 |
| 10 | Washi/Sendong 2011 | 2011, December 16–17 | 1,268 |
A key figure in the global warming debate, Professor James Hansen of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, said: "The statement that I have been making for decades is that storms fuelled by the latent energy in water vapour - thunderstorms, tornadoes, tropical storms - have the potential to be stronger, to have faster winds, as the planet warms, because the warmer atmosphere holds more water vapour. That is a safe statement. It does not mean every storm will be stronger, but the strongest storms will be stronger than the strongest storm in the past. "My own opinion is that we can combine the still-limited empirical evidence with well-grounded theoretical expectations to conclude that global warming is already affecting the occurrence of strong storms, and thus global warming should be given part of the blame for extreme events."
Ook onze eigen KNMI legt een paar verbanden met klimaat veranderingen: sterkere typhoons en meer wateroverlast door opname in de lucht en hogere zeespiegel. www.knmi.nl/nieuwsbericht