"Last week, our team at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) released the final update to its 2021 Billion-dollar disaster report (www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions), confirming what much of the nation experienced throughout 2021: another year of frequent and costly extremes. The year came in second to 2020 in terms of number of disasters (20 versus 22) and third in total costs (behind 2017 and 2005), with a price tag of $145 billion. In 2021, the U.S. experienced 20 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, putting 2021 in second place for the most disasters in a calendar year, behind the record 22 separate billion-dollar events in 2020. What really made 2021 stand out was the diversity of disasters: It is concerning that 2021 was another year in a series of years where we had a high frequency, a high cost, and large diversity of extreme events that affect people's lives and livelihoods—concerning because it hints that the extremely high activity of recent years is becoming the new normal. 2021 (red line) marks the seventh consecutive year (2015-21) in which 10 or more separate billion-dollar disaster events have impacted the U.S. The 1980–2021 annual average (black line) is 7.4 events (CPI-adjusted); the annual average for the most recent 5 years (2017–2021) is 17.2 events (CPI-adjusted). https://www.climate.gov/news-featur....S. experienced,billion-dollar events in 2020. Up and up and up and...
Some falsehoods are durable. Multiple debunkings are required. New book shreds the "climate to extreme weather" link 2018 › 08 › 30 › new-book-shreds-the-climate-to-extreme-weather-link updated edition of Disasters & Climate Change, renowned political scientist Roger Pielke Jr. takes a close ... short book Dr. Pielke seeks to shed some light on oversold claims of a climate and disasters connection.
The arithmetic is pretty simple for those who aren't pushing a political agenda. Surprise: Decline In GDP-Adjusted Global Catastrophe Losses Over Past 25 Years, Violent Tornadoes Trending Downward By P Gosselin on 23. January 2019 By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited in the English by P Gosselin) World economic output is rising and rising. This can be nicely seen in the growth of the global total gross domestic product. It is therefore not surprising that losses from natural catastrophes are also rising steadily. As there is more value that […] World economic output is rising and rising. This can be nicely seen in the growth of the global total gross domestic product. It is therefore not surprising that losses from natural catastrophes are also rising steadily. As there is more value that can be destroyed, the amount of damage would increase even if the number and severity of natural catastrophes remained constant. This is an aspect that is often concealed when MunichRe and other companies disseminate statistical loss figures. A new study by Roger Pielke has been able to document precisely this effect. Over the past 25 years, losses have risen sharply, but when standardized over GDP, a decline has been recorded. The study was published in the journal Environmental Hazards on 27 October 2018. . . .
It occurs to me that cost of a rehabilitation after an event is both a function of two things. First the number of expensive buildings and their valuation impacted by what are demonstrably less of these events compared to historical norms. And the second is massive inflation that will continue to make rehabilitation and rebuilding more and more costly. When liberals lie, openly in public, this (The OP) is actually what it looks like.
The data rule. Sorry, WQAD, Data Shows Climate Change Is Not Making Storms Worse Graph by Anthony Watts using official NOAA/Storm Prediction Center data. Twelve-month running anomalies of monthly snow extent, from November 1966 to October Note that North America, represented by the blue dots, remains virtually unchanged in recent years compared to the late 1960s, when satellite measurements first began. Source: Global Snow Lab, “12-month Running Anomalies of Monthly Snow Extent from November 1966 to October 2021,” Rutgers University Climate Lab, accessed February 2022, https://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_anom.php?ui_set=0&ui_region=nhland&ui_month=2
