New Paper On NOAA’s ‘Billion-Dollar Disasters’ Report: ‘In A Word, Misinformation’
A High-Profile Opportunity For Self-Correction In Climate Science And Policy
by Roger Pielke Jr. 49 mins ago
Today, npj Natural Hazards, a journal in the Nature family of journals, officially published my new paper, “Scientific Integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters.” [emphasis, links added]
The paper shows — irrefutably in my view — that the “billion-dollar disaster” tabulation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), fails to meet the agency’s standards for information quality and scientific integrity.1
For reasons I describe in detail in the paper, the “billion-dollar disaster” tabulation is not suitable as a “database” (scare quotes — it is not data by any standard) for the detection and attribution of trends in extreme weather.
Similarly, the tabulation is not suitable for identifying the consequences of changes or variability in climate on the costs of disasters. The dataset has been widely misused in science, by the media, and in policy.
It is, in a word, misinformation.2
https://climatechangedispatch.com/new-paper-on-noaas-billion-dollar-disasters-report-in-a-word-misinformation/
