National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Identifies Strange Coincidence
From Energy Matters:
“Natural disaster” Noun, def: A “weather or climate effect that causes at least $1 billion in damages” (on a relative scale). Using this formula, NOAA (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has determined that the number of disasters in the world has quadrupled since 1970, with the US registering the most disasters since 1995. Hurricane Harvey registered as the 10th disaster to occur in the U.S. in 2017.
Climate deniers claim this to be a coincidence. Isn’t that extraordinary?
Craig,
Oh dear Craig, you really do have a penchant for kicking “own goals”.
This is perhaps the most telling comment you’ve ever written. Did you ever stop and think about the logic of your comment before posting ?
“Climate deniers claim this to be a coincidence. Isn’t that extraordinary?
No, it isn’t because they don’t !!
Your comment is nonsense on so many levels, it’s Hard to know where to begin !
But let’s try;
1) What the hell is a “climate denier” ? I don’t think a single person on the planet denies there’s a “climate”.
2) “weather or climate effect that causes at least $1 billion in damages” What a completely inappropriate model to use for measuring weather events.
Since 1970 the size of the population, spread of human development, value of property etc, expanded enormously. (far, far greater than the rate of inflation)
Hugely valuable infrastructure, (stuff like Cell phone towers, luxury marinas, towering condominiums , colossal bridges, motorways etc ) didn’t exist 47 years ago.
Whole cities have expanded or been established in previously sparsely inhabited swamp or farmland. If a tree was uprooted in 1970,it had no economic value, but today the same tree would be an insurance claim for many tens of thousands of landscaping.
All this makes complete nonsense of both your comment, and the ill-conceived formula used by the NOAA .
And you wonder why people are growing weary of alarmist doomsday prophets ?