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New Study Highlights Inconvenient Hurricane Data Omitted From ‘Alarming’ US Climate Report

by Michael Bastasch
November 26, 2018, 2:43 PM
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al gore hurricane sequelThere’s been “no trend” in the number and intensity of hurricanes hitting the continental U.S. and the normalized damages caused by such storms over the past 117 years, according to a new study.

“Consistent with observed trends in the frequency and intensity of hurricane landfalls along the continental United States since 1900, the updated normalized loss estimates also show no trend,” reads the study, published on Monday in the journal Nature.

The study also found no trend in the number and strength of hurricanes hitting the U.S. over the last 117 years.

That finding is consistent with past research by study co-authors University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. and Colorado State University meteorologist Philip Klotzbach.

Weinkle et al. 2018 applies two methods.
Here are the bottom-line results for one method (results not sensitive to choice of method).
Graph shows under the accounting methods of NHC/NOAA used consistently over many decades, estimated damage from past hurricane seasons in 2018. pic.twitter.com/5kllqKFCyM

— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) November 26, 2018

“Over the entire dataset there is no significant trend in normalized losses, CONUS hurricane landfalls or CONUS intense hurricane landfalls,” reads the study. CONUS stands for “Continental United States.”

While the nominal costs of hurricanes have increased in recent decades, that’s not because of global warming. Population growth and increased amounts of homes and infrastructure in hurricane-prone areas are driving costs up, the study found.

But the upward trend in nominal disaster costs disappears when economic growth is taken into account, the study found. Had the 1926 Miami hurricane hit in 2018, it would have been the most damaging on record.

Top 10 US hurricanes if hit in 2018

1-1926 Miami $235.9B
2-1900 Galveston $138.6
3-2005 Katrina $116.9
4-1915 Galveston $109.8
5-1992 Andrew $106.0
6-2012 Sandy $73.5
7-1944 Florida $73.5
8-2017 Harvey $62.2
9-1938 New England $57.8
10-1928 Florida $54.4https://t.co/NtFyP3PrqK

— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) November 26, 2018

When controlled for economic growth, the study found “no trend” in normalized losses from hurricanes hitting the lower 48 states. The study analyzed data from 206 hurricane landfalls going back 117 years to 1900.

It’s the third in a series of papers looking at normalized hurricane damages. The new study includes economic losses from 2017’s devastating Atlantic hurricane season and adds in damage estimates from “missing” storms before 1940.

Pielke and Klotzbach also published a study in July that found no significant trend in the frequency or intensity of U.S. hurricane landfalls and that increased storm damages were driven by the “[g]rowth in coastal population and regional wealth.”

If anything, the July study showed a declining trend in U.S. hurricane landfalls — though not a statistically insignificant one. Klotzbach and Pielke’s newest paper, once again, shows that population and economic growth are behind increases in nominal hurricane costs.

Work by Klotzbach and Pielke on hurricane landfalls was largely ignored by authors of the U.S. government’s latest National Climate Assessment (NCA) report, which was released Friday. The NCA seems to suggest the opposite of what observational data shows.

In review comments, Canadian economist Ross McKitrick criticized NCA authors for leaving out data showing hurricane landfalls wasn’t becoming more frequent.

McKitrick said national hurricane data going back more than a century “clearly indicate a drop in the decadal rate of US landfalling hurricanes since the 1960s. The current decade is on the low end of hurricane frequency even with last summer’s busy season.”

“Yet you don’t mention this, instead you spin the topic to make it sound like the trends are all towards more cyclone activity. This paragraph is one-sided and misleading,” McKitrick wrote in his comments.

NCA authors disagreed with McKitrick’s criticism, arguing its choice to ignore hurricane landfall data was justified because they used “the entire dataset, which includes all basin-wide storms.”

Pielke also criticized NCA authors for omitting inconvenient hurricane data.

Let’s observe here hurricanes are discussed at length in the report, and every hurricane that is discussed is … a landfalling storm. The failure to include trend data on US landfalling hurricanes in USNCA is a remarkable choice. What were they thinking, no one would notice?

— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) November 24, 2018

Here are 2 papers on US hurricanes ignored by USNCA:
1. trends in rainfall & flooding from US hurricanes:https://t.co/7uwFWKUTls
2. trends in US landfalling, intense hurricanes:https://t.co/dXjhkQLQPn
Neither show long-term trends, but that isn’t a reason to ignore them

— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) November 24, 2018

The NCA was produced with input from hundreds of scientists, including experts from 13 federal agencies. However, the report has come under fire for misusing climate projections to generate alarming media headlines.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent, called the report “very alarming” and used it as an opportunity to attack the Trump administration.

Trump administration officials, on the other hand, criticized the NCA for its heavy reliance on extreme scenarios of global warming that experts are increasingly regarding as flawed and highly unlikely to occur.

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  1. amirlach says:
    6 years ago

    Al Gore is the poster child of the dangers of planting hair plug that tiny little bit too deep.

  2. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 years ago

    Back in 2005 when they blamed Hurricane Katrina on Global Warming/Climate Change the same with Hurricanes SANDY,HARVEY and IRMA these Eco-Wackos are a bunch of En-Liar-Mentalists and they spew their lies to the school kids and i have yet to see any Hollywood Celeberties give up their pampered lifestyles and go live in a Grass Hut

  3. Dave of Reedy Creek, Qld says:
    6 years ago

    Very insightful article. Here in Australia we are fed a daily dose of fatalistic climate change propaganda by politicians, the media, school teachers, students and various others. I have finally decided my country has lost it’s sanity. I think most people here now are so locked into this “Great Lie” they won’t believe anything else.

  4. Steve Bunten says:
    6 years ago

    But didn’t we just read that hurricanes (and wildfires and floods and droughts and…) were all getting worse due to man-made climate change. So how can this be possible? Unless the government paper lied. Although the same Professor Pielke (the Junior from CU, not his dad from CSU) tore the report apart.

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