Another Climate "Science" Scandal?
THB Insider #26 - THB Turns 5
Roger Pielke Jr.
Oct 24, 2025
Like a zombie, the so-called “billion dollar disasters” (BDD) tabulation is back. This week the advocacy group Climate Central announced that it was the new home of the effort, formerly housed at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). To much fanfare and media attention, Climate Central released its supposedly newly-tabulated numbers for 2025 to date.
Remarkably, the shenanigans associated with the BDD are apparently continuing, as documented in this post. Fool me once . . .
Before getting to the shenanigans, let me emphasize that Climate Central is a proper home for “billion dollar disasters,” because the tabulation has always been about promoting climate activism in the guise of science-like numbers. Political advocacy is often full of dodgy claims, of course, and climate advocacy is no different.
Climate Central, the group that also brought us World Weather Attribution, is funded by the Bezos Earth Fund, among others. The group seeks to place the “existential threat” of climate change at the center of everything:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/another-climate-science-scandal
