Every year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tallies up all the disasters exceeding $1 billion in damages. The numbers get widespread media attention, which portray the costs of damages from climate-related natural disasters as increasing every year. The tally is often cited by climate policymakers and climate activists calling for regulations.
In January, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., retired professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, released a preprint of his study, “Scientific integrity and U.S. ‘Billion Dollar Disasters,” finding that the methodology NOAA uses in the tally lacks scientific integrity. The preprint, which is a preliminary version of a scientific manuscript that researchers post online before peer review, has since been peer-reviewed and published.
NOAA responded to the study on Thursday, saying it “will take actions to improve the documentation and transparency of the data set for greater compliance with NOAA’s Information Quality Guidelines.”
“After many years of being stonewalled by the group inside of NOAA that produces the ‘billion dollar disaster’ tabulation, I am encouraged that NOAA leadership has now responded formally and positively to concerns about the tabulation’s data and methods. Science should be self-correcting, and sometimes that takes a while, especially when science becomes wrapped up in politics,” Pielke told Just the News. […]
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