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Jason's avatar

The real problem with NOAA’s BDD was methodology. You can follow all of the links here

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/rip-noaas-billion-dollar-disasters?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

It could very well and to good effect be re-created in a more robust way as RPJ describes.

There’s no benefit to climate action with the use of a PR tool that is so easily critiqued.

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Jeremy Ney's avatar

No dataset is perfect, but many people (including RPJ) acknowledge that many of these dollar figures may actually be UNDER-estimates of how bad things are. Cancelling something isn't the solution when you want to fix it.

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Jason's avatar

I agree there was a constructive solution to the methodological issues and that almost certainly this is not the government willing to implement it.

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Michael Pergola's avatar

Fake news . The Marxists have destroyed any legitimacy the scientific community had by polluting their fields .

A simple look at how hurricanes were supposedly tracked and compared to a time when we tracked hurricanes by looking at the horizon and then tying bogus increases to their favorite cash cow —— climate change .

No hurricanes haven’t increased but YES damages and life losses from natural disasters have plummeted dramatically despite increases in population .

So no.

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