{"id":288740,"date":"2023-11-26T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288740"},"modified":"2023-11-26T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T18:00:22","slug":"national-embarrassment-key-stat-used-in-biden-admins-landmark-climate-report-is-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288740","title":{"rendered":"\u2018National Embarrassment\u2019: Key Stat Used In Biden Admin\u2019s Landmark Climate Report Is Misleading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A key top-line statistic featured in the Biden administration\u2019s latest report on the state of climate change in the U.S. is misleading in several ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0Fifth National Climate Assessment<\/a>\u00a0(NCA 5) features numerous analyses and graphics that purport to highlight extreme weather events that result in at least $1 billion of damage, as well as using monetary losses from events like hurricanes and floods as a de facto proxy for climate change intensity. Critics of the metric assert that its use obscures key context, namely the growth of population, asset density and asset values in coastal regions that inflate the prevalence of billion-dollar damage events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no peer reviewed science that attributes any part of increasing disaster losses to changes in climate,\u201d Roger Pielke, Jr., a professor at the University of Colorado who has extensively studied and written about the politicization of science, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cTo see evidence of changes in climate, look at climate data, not economic data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pielke, Jr. has harshly criticized the billion-dollar damages metric in the recent past, writing<\/a> in January that its use by supposedly authoritative scientific bodies amounts to a \u201cnational embarrassment,\u201d pointing out that \u201can identical hurricane making landfall in Florida in 1980 versus 2023 would result in vastly different loss totals, because today there are simply more people in more homes with more stuff than 43 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Criticisms of the metric did not stop the Biden administration from relying on it in the NCA 5, specifically with regard to some of its\u00a0analysis<\/a>\u00a0of the American Southeast. The region\u2019s coastal states are the nation\u2019s most prone to hurricanes, the frequency and intensity of which are frequently highlighted by climate\u00a0alarmists<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0activists<\/a>\u00a0as a concrete example of the threat that climate change poses to American society.\u00a0(RELATED: BASTASCH: The UN\u2019s Newest Climate Report Is A Woke Dumpster Fire Masquerading As Science)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A graphic from NCA 5 showing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) billion-dollar disasters by state from 1980\u20132022 in the Southeast. The map adds up billion-dollar events for each state affected (i.e., it does not mean that each state shown suffered at least $1 billion in losses for each event), according to its caption in the NCA 5 report. (Screenshot \/ Public via NCA 5 report)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The NCA 5 graphic would lead the unscrupulous viewer to believe upon first glance that there have been more than 900 billion-dollar loss events between 1980 and 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, data<\/a> published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that the actual number for that time period is 373. The reason for the discrepancy between NOAA\u2019s data and the NCA 5 graphic is that billion-dollar damage events typically impact more than just one state; accordingly, the NCA 5 graphic adds to the count for each state affected by the same billion-dollar damage event, regardless of whether or not each state impacted suffered a billion dollars of losses on its own in such a scenario, according to the graphic\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe increase in population and material wealth over the last several decades are an important cause for the rising costs,\u201d\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to NOAA\u2019s website. \u201cThese trends are further complicated by the fact that much of the growth has taken place in vulnerable areas like coasts, the wildland-urban interface and river floodplains.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, weather events that did not meet the billion-dollar threshold when they occurred in the past are retroactively classified as such once their costs are adjusted for inflation, meaning that a $900 million dollar event in 1985 would be classified as a billion-dollar event when adjusted for today\u2019s inflation, according<\/a> to NOAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pielke, Jr. ran his own analysis in his January piece, putting North American catastrophe losses in terms of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). He found that \u201cNorth American catastrophe losses as a proportion of U.S. GDP clearly show no upwards trend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This crucial context complicating the statistic\u2019s validity as a de facto proxy for the intensity of climate change has not stopped the White House from using it as such anyways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClimate change is a major driver for the increased frequency, duration, and severity of extreme weather and climate-related disasters,\u201d according<\/a> to a 2021 fact sheet published by the White House. \u201cMillions of Americans feel the effects of these extreme events when their roads and schools flood, and hospitals lose power. Over the past few years, the frequency of extreme weather and climate-related disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion has skyrocketed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the content focusing on billion-dollar damage events, the report also touts its use of \u201cindigenous knowledge<\/a>\u201d to arrive at its findings. The report also includes a section linking climate change to pandemics<\/a> and an entire section on the intersections of climate change and social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe NCA should never have been placed under the White House. It is too tempting for both Republicans and Democrats to use it for politics,\u201d Pielke, Jr. told the DCNF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither NOAA nor the White House responded immediately to requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact\u00a0<\/em>licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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