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CNN still relying on that debunked Puerto Rico death toll to bash Trump - 'Harvard study had an insanely huge margin of error, putting a low estimate of 798 and a high of over 8,000, w/ a horribly unscientific methodology...researchers took one number — 15 deaths identified from a survey of 3,299 households — and extrapolated that to come up with 4,645 deaths across the island."

Flashback: Puerto Rican Gov. admitted higher 'death toll is only an approximation, not a concrete list of names'

The death toll is 'a very broad estimate for the number of people who died above what you’d expect to see in a normal year' - 'But that number is not a count of the death toll in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria. Instead, it’s just the midpoint of a wide-ranging estimate of the possible number of deaths'

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.

 'The 2017 season in the Atlantic region is not even ranked among the top 5 historically in 6 of 7 key metrics (so far) through mid-October.'

"While Atlantic has obviously had very active #hurricane season, N. Hemisphere has experienced average TC activity by most metrics to date," hurricane expert Phil Klotzbach wrote on October 16, 2017. 

The 9th annual conference comes during a time where ongoing wildfires are ripping through northern California, leaving at least 35 people dead across four counties. “All over the West we’re seeing these fires get much, much worse,” said Gore, theLas Vegas Sun reports. “The underlying cause is the heat.” In particular, he blamed the reliance on fossil fuels for allowing hurricanes to get as destructive as they have been. “The heart of it is that we still depend on fossil fuels,” he said.

Warmist Naomi Klein tells UK Labour Party convention about a "world so upside down" due to "climate chaos."

"Whether it's climate change or the nuclear threat, Trump represents a crisis -- that if left unchecked -- could echo through geologic time."

"It's bleak out there. A world so upside down...Whole regions rocked by climate chaos."

"The Caribbean and the southern U.S. are in the midst of an unprecedented hurricane season. Pounded by storm after record breaking storm."