As part of the 2nd edition of my Kindle e-book Inevitable Disaster: Why Hurricanes Can’t Be Blamed On Global Warming (which should go live tonight), I include the following graph, based upon data in a January 2018 U.S. Government report.(after the jump)
In the top panel, we see that the average monetary damages of the 30 most costly hurricane disasters in U.S history have gone up dramatically in recent decades.
But in the 2nd panel, we see that the average intensity of those 30 most costly storms has not increased.
Most recent (2018) U.S. Government analysis of the 30 most costly hurricane disasters in U.S. history shows that increasing damages are due to increasing population density and infrastructure vulnerability, not due to storm intensity.
The increasing number of “damaging” storms in recent decades is, of course, an artifact of the increasing monetary damages with time: only the 30 most costly storms are included.
Of course, this is what Roger Pielke, Jr. has been saying for years.
Read more at Dr. Roy’s Blog
They have been blaming Hurricanes for Global Warming/Climate Change since Katrina back in 2005 with last years Hurricanes Harvey and Irma they did the same No One was talking hurricane and Global Warming back in 1900 with Galveston or with Camile back in 1969 but AL BORE was not around in 1900 AND 1969