Fact Checking BBC’s Hurricane “Reality” Check

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Fact Checking BBC’s Hurricane “Reality” Check
OCTOBER 2, 2022
tags: BBC, Hurricanes
By Paul Homewood

 

The BBC has packed three lies into a 3-minute “Reality Check”. That’s some performance, even by their standards!
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/61843574

Weather girl Louise Lear introduces the latest reality check on hurricanes, which is just a clumsy attempt to use Hurricane Ian to fool the public that they are getting worse because of global warming.

In particular there are three outright lies:


 

1)  “There’s evidence they’re getting more powerful”

There is no such evidence.

US landfalling hurricanes, which offer the longest, most complete and reliable record, clearly show there is no such trend:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-146.png

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html

And last year’s paper by Vecchi et al, “Changes in Atlantic major hurricane frequency since the late-19th century”, establishes that there are also no century scale trends in Atlantic basin major hurricanes, once changes in observation practices are taken into account.

There has been no long term increase either in the number or proportion of major hurricanes:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/10/02/fact-checking-bbcs-hurricane-reality-check/