‘Incontrovertibly false’: Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. Fact checks the ‘self-appointed climate fact-checkers’ & finds them DEAD WRONG
Kerry Emanuel claims: "Economic damage, normalized by world domestic product... from weather-related natural disasters have been increasing greatly."
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Dr. Pielke responds: "This is incontrovertibly false. Contrary to Emanuel's claims, this metric is not "increasing greatly" (actually it is not even increasing)
"In fact, every study that has looked at global economic losses after normalization (for GDP or other factors) has consistently failed to identify any increase in losses at all."
Emanuel also writes: "There is strong and mounting evidence that climate change is increasing... the incidence of strong hurricanes."
Pielke Jr. responds: "Yet a recent WMO assessment polled its authors & concluded (image) no increase (so how can there be more disasters?)"
Kerry Emanuel has every right to his opinions, of course. But he should attend to his own factual accuracy before claiming (falsely) that "Michael Shellenberger's statement is not defensible" & "is patently false."
For @ClimateFdbk this is easily 5 Pinocchios."
https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1282417298351878144
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1282417298351878144.html
🧵Fact checking self-appointed climate fact checkers
@ClimateFdbk Kerry Emanuel claims:
“economic damage, normalized by world domestic product… from weather-related natural disasters have been increasing greatly” (full quote below)
In fact, every study that has looked at global economic losses after normalization (for GDP or other factors) has consistently failed to identify any increase in losses at all (table from Pielke 2021, in press
Kerry Emanuel has every right to his opinions, of course
But he should attend to his own factual accuracy before claiming (falsely) that “@ShellenbergerMD statement is not defensible” & “is patently false”
For @ClimateFdbk this is easily 5 Pinocchios
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