By Paul Homewood
Roger Pielke Jr’s has updated his analysis on Atlantic hurricanes:
Today is the official start to the 2023 hurricane season in the North Atlantic. Over the past few decades the media has increasing celebrated every hurricane as an indicator of climate change — whether juiced, intensified, linked, fueled — pick your favorite. Typically lost in the apocalyptic narrative has been actual science and data.
Below are five important conclusions from the scientific literature that are rarely, if ever, found in coverage of hurricanes.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/2023-update-what-the-media-wont-tell
Roger covers five topics:
1) Atlantic Hurricane trends
2) US landfalling hurricane trends
3) Trends in hurricane damage
4) The role of societal change in disaster costs
5) The role of ENSO
His paper concludes that there is no evidence that hurricanes are becoming more frequent or intense, and that the increasing cost of such disasters is due to economic development, population increase and the fact that we all have much more “stuff”.
The full paper can be read here. I would thoroughly recommend it.
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June 2, 2023 at 07:31AM
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