WRITTEN BY DR. BENNY PEISER, GUEST POST ON MAR 2, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
New Study Clashes With Official Data: Hurricanes NOT More Frequent, Intense
ian windsA new study by computer modelers published in Nature Climate Change has concluded that hurricanes impacting the US have become more intense in recent decades and will become stronger in the future.
The paper, “Increasing sequential tropical cyclone hazards along the US East and Gulf coasts” by Xi et al, bases its conclusions on probabilistic modeling. [emphasis, links added]
However, the actual historic US hurricane data does not support such conclusions. According to the US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s latest review:
“There is no strong evidence of century-scale increasing trends in U.S. landfalling hurricanes or major hurricanes”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/new-study-clashes-with-official-data-hurricanes-not-more-frequent-intense/