{"id":253371,"date":"2023-04-17T15:05:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253371"},"modified":"2023-04-17T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:05:57","slug":"disasters-report-features-crudely-manipulated-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253371","title":{"rendered":"Disasters report features \u2018crudely manipulated data\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Disasters report features \u2018crudely manipulated data\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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London, 17 April \u2013 The Global Warming Policy Foundation has called on the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to withdraw its fatally flawed 2022 Disasters in Numbers report.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), together with the Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), recently published their 2022 report on\u00a0<\/em>\u201cDisaster in Numbers.\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


On its front cover, the report deceptively suggests that the 387 reported disasters, the loss of 30,704 lives, affecting 185 million individuals and causing economic damage of $223.8 billion are due to \u201cclimate in action\u201d \u2013 although the report also covers earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides and wildfires.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The annual review of disasters of all kinds has been examined by extreme weather expert, Dr Ralph Alexander, who has published a strongly worded critique at his website.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Dr. Alexander notes that:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


* data has been crudely manipulated to suggest that there may be a hidden underlying increase in weather-related disasters
* false claims are made on the basis of statistically invalid comparisons.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


GWPF director Dr Benny Peiser said:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cDr Alexander has shown that the authors of the latest \u2018Disasters in Numbers\u2019 report are bending over backwards to provide support for the narrative of climate doom, when the data and trends of weather-related disasters are pointing in the opposite direction.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


The Catholic University and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) should be ashamed of what is appearing in their name. This publication is fatally flawed and should be withdrawn.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


More information<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


*\u00a0Ralph Alexander: CRED\u2019s 2022 Disasters in Numbers report is a disaster in itself<\/a><\/u><\/strong>
*\u00a02022 Disasters in Numbers<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Alexander notes that: \u201cDr Alexander has shown that the authors of the latest \u2018Disasters in Numbers\u2019 report are bending over backwards to provide support for the narrative of climate doom, when the data and trends of weather-related disasters are pointing in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":253376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818595,691818598,691818599,691818597,691818596],"class_list":["post-253371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-centre-for-research-on-the-epidemiology-of-disasters","tag-disasters","tag-manipulated-data","tag-united-states-agency-for-international-development","tag-universite-catholique-de-louvain","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/009fd2c2e44f3b66c9b69825a40d1c333.jpg?fit=2048%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-13UD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":273372,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273372","url_meta":{"origin":253371,"position":0},"title":"EM-DAT:\u00a0 The International Disaster Database","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/14\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Note that Deaths are often not\u00a0fully\u00a0reported for months and even years after a major event, thus the EM-DAT data on deaths lags by a year or so. 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