Another big hysteric lie–hurricanes are more frequent and more powerful. Roger Pielke Jr is following in the footsteps of his father, who was an outstanding climate rationalist. Look at the graphs in this post, they tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth about hurricanes. There is more damage, but it is purely caused by the increase in building along coasts and by the rise in property values. If you translated all damage over the last 125 years into today’s dollars, looks about the same. We had a couple of bad years in frequency a decade ago and then several years with no major US hurricanes. Average power per hurricane is stable. If you cherrypick a time period, you can find an increasing trend, but it doesn’t exist over long climate cycles. In short, as usual nothing to panic or even worry about. If you move to and live on the Gulf or Atlantic coasts, you should expect that at some point you are going to have a hurricane. (Pielke Article)
From our favorite anti-science website – Sekptical science.
Very lame and dishonest attempt to explain why hurricanes cause more damage due to climate change
https://skepticalscience.com/hurricanes-more-destructive.html
Here is another dishonest article that explains that climate change causes more insurance losses
This statement is highlights the dishonesty focusing on losses adjusted for inflation – yet omitting any reference to losses caused by population growth.
” A 2012 study2 by London School of Economics researchers Fabian Barthel and Eric Neumayer looked at damage trends normalized by GDP, a measure they used because others are not universally available. ”
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mit-climate-scientist-responds-on-disaster-costs-and-climate-change/
Lots of sleigh of hand – hoping the uninformed reader doesnt catch the deceptions