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Definitive Guide to Extreme Weather: No trends or declining trends in hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, heat waves, disaster losses, wildfires – All peer-reviewed & official sources – By Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.

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What the media won’t tell you about extreme weather and its impactsHere is a thread of some of the figures I’ve posted in recent months about extreme weather that I have never seen in legacy media reportingAll peer-reviewed and official sources . . . 
Floods
IPCC finds no trends in flooding globally
Did you know that flood impacts in the US as a proportion of wealth are down >70% over 80 years? Huge news, good news!But don’t tell anyone 🥸
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Drought
The IPCC finds no long-term trends in meteorological or hydrological drought
In Western Europe specifically there is no trend in drought over >150 years
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US heat waves
The US government’s official metric for heat waves comes from a paper I co-authored more than 20 years ago. It shows an increase since ~1960s but a decrease since <1930s
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/what-the-med…
US heat waves
During the past 50 years, when heat waves have increased, mortality from extreme heat has fallen pretty much everywhere in the US
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/what-the-med…That is good news!
Let’s keep it up
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US (mainland) hurricanes
IPCC, WMO, UNNCA are all in agreement
No upwards trends in landfalling hurricanes, including the strongest storms. Have you ever seen these graphs in the media (aside from Bill Nye and his sharpie;)
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/what-the-med…
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US disaster costs

As a proportion of GDP US disaster costs have gone down

More good news!
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/billion-doll…

European disaster costs

As a proportion of GDP European disaster losses have gone down

Even more good news!
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/making-sense…

Global weather and climate disaster losses

As a proportion of GDP global disaster (weather and climate, but also overall) have gone down

Great news!
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/dont-believe…

Disasters

This century the number of disasters tracked by EM-DAT has not increased, in fact down a bit

Important to understand why so that progress with respect to the Sendai Framework can be maintained!
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Damage from tornadoes supports the data on falling numbers of the strongest tornadoes

Both inflation-adjusted and normalized tornado losses have decreased
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/what-the-med…

Normalized US hurricane losses

As we would expect with no up-trend in US landfalls there is no trend in normalized US hurricane losses since 1900
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/pielkes-week…

Global hurricane landfalls

Lots of ups and downs over 70+ years but no overall trend

rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/just-the-fac…

Global hurricane energy

More ups and down but no trend since 1980

rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/just-the-fac…

Global hurricane energy per storm
No trend since 1980
Storms are not getting stronger but fewerrogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/just-the-fac…
Everything you find in this thread
Everything
Is consistent with what has been reported in the IPCC & found in official data and the peer-reviewed literatureShhh … don’t tell anyone

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Amazing to me that some of the things I write about you cannot find anywhere else

So I’m not gonna stop

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