Links tagged “harvey”

Extreme weather expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: The figure above shows the annual costs of weather disasters (data from Munich Re) as a proportion of global GDP (data from the UN), from 1990 to 2017.

2017 ranks 2nd to 2005;
The dataset is dominated by US hurricanes (accounting for about 70% of losses);
The trend from 1990 to 2017 is downward;
6 of past 10 years have been below average;

Le Quere has this to say in the Tyndall Centre’s press release on the topic today:

This year we have seen how climate change can amplify the impacts of hurricanes with more intense rainfall, higher sea levels and warmer ocean conditions favouring more powerful storms.

http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/news/record-high-co2-emissions-delay-global-peak

As we know, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for this statement.

It is a sad state of affairs when supposedly objective scientists are prepared to lie to support their beliefs.