More Climate + Storms Propaganda

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Climate Central, a Big Climate advocacy organization, has released its version of the discredited NOAA "Billion Dollar Disasters" product. It purports to catalog disasters that have caused a billion or more of disasters. Except it doesn't. Their map is below. 
Look closely at these "disasters." All but three are multi-day and multi-region mashups of different types of storms to create "disasters." I have added arrows to several items in the West to help illustrate my point. To compare: The Joplin Tornado was a billion dollar disaster. Hurricane Helene was a billion dollar disaster. "North Central & Central Severe Storms" over a six day period aren't even close. In their fine print, Climate Central acknowledges that some of the rising cost are due to "socioeconomic" trends (example: expensive mansions built in the path of Florida hurricanes). 

Plus, all of these are weather, not climate, disasters. This especially true of tornadoes. The trend in violent tornadoes the past 50+ years is clearly down. In the Los Angeles Fires, incompetence played a significant role in the size of the event. 

The climate of the 2020's, so far, has been relatively benign. Here is a graph of worldwide weather/climate deaths from Dr. Roger Pielke, Junior's, Substack "The Honest Broker." 
The period from roughly 1850 to 1900 was a time of exceptionally powerful and frequent storms and other extreme weather events. In the U.S., the extreme events continued until about 1970. Worldwide, 50 million are estimated to have perished in just the 1870's. Of course, part of that high toll is because there were no storm warnings. But look at the 1920's. The number was 1/10th of the 1870's and there were no storm warnings at that time, either. 

In the 1970's, there were storm warnings available in the U.S. and some Western nations but not in most of the rest of the world. But storm deaths were a tiny fraction of those even 50 years before. This is a reflection -- at east in part -- of the milder climate/weather compared to a century before. So, Climate Central, like NOAA before it, often has to aggregate unrelated events in order to make it appear disasters are rising. 

All of this is an attempt to keep the global warming $$$ flowing and to improve the political climate for insurance companies to raise rates. 

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