{"id":273290,"date":"2023-08-13T19:48:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273290"},"modified":"2023-08-13T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:49:00","slug":"21st-century-global-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273290","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Global\u00a0Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger Pielke Jr on disaster trends:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new peer-reviewed paper out this week by\u00a0<\/em>Alimonti and Mariani<\/em><\/a>\u00a0asks whether global disasters have increased. Their answer is that they have not (and if the name sounds familiar, it is the same Alimonti whose paper is being\u00a0<\/em>improperly retracted<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 more fresh info on that in the coming days).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I read their paper today I noticed that the time series they reported from the\u00a0<\/em>EM-DAT database<\/em><\/a>\u00a0looked a bit different than that I had last explored and\u00a0<\/em>presented here<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at THB late last year. So today I downloaded the most recent\u00a0<\/em>data from EM-DAT<\/em><\/a>, and indeed there has been some changes to the most recent three years, presumably due to late entries into the database (however I will enquire as all post-hoc dataset updates should be documented). EM-DAT has been funded since the late 1990s by the\u00a0<\/em>U.S. Agency for International Development<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is the updated time series of global hydrological, climatological and meteorological disasters in the EM-DAT database, along with the linear trend, over the period 2000 to 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Full post\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I read their paper today I noticed that the time series they reported from the EM-DAT database looked a bit different than that I had last explored and presented here at THB late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":0,"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":[691821437,691821813],"class_list":["post-273290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-global-boiling","tag-global-disasters","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-195U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":289650,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=289650","url_meta":{"origin":273290,"position":0},"title":"Natural Disasters Are Not Increasing \u2014 Really","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/02\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"From Watts Up With That? 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