Weather disasters at record highs? Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Tremendously misleading…the world & the US are not seeing increasing damages’ – Pielke Jr.: Claims ‘so embarrassing…bad economics for media catnip & clicks’

Tremendously misleading. The number of billion-dollar disasters will of course increase as society gets richer When corrected for increased wealth, the world and the US are not seeing increasing damages (but insignificantly *decreasing* damages) https://t.co/MqBeszfev5 pic.twitter.com/GLAH7WxqFG — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) January 9, 2021   https://t.co/BeqZQ8ELN0 — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) January 9, 2021 https://t.co/6dhqBCNv9G — Bjorn […]

Mother Jones suggests that trace amounts of CO2 are causing “plagues of biblical proportions” to descend upon the American Southwest

Mother Jones suggests that trace amounts of CO2 are causing “plagues of biblical proportions” to descend upon the American Southwest http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/mother-jones-suggests-that-trace.html The Southwest’s Forests May Never Recover From Megafires | Mother JonesGiven these plagues of biblical proportions—fire, heat, drought and insects—the future for the Southwest’s forests looks dim. Whether they will survive at all may […]