No, BBC, Disaster Losses Can’t Be Tied to Climate Change

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No, BBC, Disaster Losses Can’t Be Tied to Climate Change
1 day ago Anthony Watts 

The recent British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Science Focus publication “The US is now paying more than any other country for climate change damage, study suggests,” claims that the United States is “now paying more than any other country for climate change damage,” citing a study estimating $16.2 trillion in U.S. losses since 1990. This is a fabricated falsehood. Decades of peer-reviewed research on disaster losses show no detectable long-term trend in normalized weather-related losses attributable to human-caused climate change and the BBC is wrongly conflating weather with climate.

The BBC based its story on a study from researchers at Stanford University, who write “[c]limate change is causing measurable harm globally.” They admit that no research links loss and damages from extreme weather to climate change; a gap in knowledge they attempt to remedy by applying politically motivated, flawed social cost of carbon estimates to econometric models tying carbon dioxide emissions to aggregate economic output in simulations of what output might have been had the Earth not warmed slightly.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/11/no-bbc-disaster-losses-cant-be-tied-to-climate-change/

[DefiantMassRINO]

Massachusetts utility customers were paying more because the Global Climate Change Net-Zero De-Carbonization nonsense drove up energy prices before the war with Iran started.

The Global Climate Change Net-Zero De-Carbonization nonsense is making the affordability crisis worse.

The Strait of Hormuz stuff is poor risk and poor supply chain management.  Since the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, OPEC and their customers should have been investing in infrastructure and alternate energy suplliers so they could not be held hostage by Iran and other Persian Gulf nations.