This influential academic is claiming (and insists claiming, even after being shown wrong) that climate damages from weather are increasing When adjusting for GDP (same storm/flood hitting a neighborhood with two houses instead of a shack will increase costs), it declineshttps://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/1108412190866849792 …
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Inconvenient acts are simply not important to people on a mission like Gleick
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Doesn’t that just show that emergency and healthcare services have improved, and that less people are living in poverty worldwide?
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It is certainly because of increasing resilience, partly from healthcare and emergency, partly from higher incomes But crucially, it shows that the world is not getting more vulnerable, but less
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Compelling.
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Ignoring gdp growth gives a truer picture of the actual situation. Weather related disaster losses have increased 74 percent since 1990.
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How does ignoring GDP growth give a "truer" picture? Relative costs have declined. The fraction of income/wealth lost to damage from storms/extreme weather has declined, and will likely continue to decline in the future.
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He not a “real researcher”, he’s Opinion News (editorial)
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Well yes, check out his excellent scientific track record. And this: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bjorn_Lomborg …
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