This new paper from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. is likely not going to be popular with the doomer crowd, because it takes the wind out of their sails when it…
Category: Disaster
Reality check: Global Weather Related Disaster Losses
There’s a belief among alarmists that losses from weather related disasters is on the rise, and this it yet another reason why we have to “take action now”. For example,…
Despite What You’ve Heard, Global Warming Isn’t Making Weather More Extreme
From Investors Business Daily Climate Myths: We keep reading about how the extreme weather of 2017 is the “new normal” thanks to global warming — even if the weather in question is frigid…
Do humans harm the environment?
By Andy May This is the first of seven posts on the potential costs and hazards of human-caused global warming and the impact of humans on the environment in general.…
Weather-related Natural Disasters: Should we be concerned about a reversion to the mean?
by Risk Frontiers July 31, 2017 Professor Roger Pielke Jr (University of Colorado Boulder) Roger is a long-term Research Fellow of Risk Frontiers and recently it was our pleasure to be…
Natural disasters less devastating in 2017: Munich Re
From the AFP July 18, 2017 Frankfurt am Main (AFP) – Natural catastrophes worldwide were less devastating in the first half of 2017 than the average over the past…
Oroville dam spillway expected to collapse
UPDATE: Drone video over spillway added. Collapse of emergency spillway expected, evacuation ordered Department of Water Resources officials say they expect the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam to fail, and…
Oh Noes!!! Sea Level Rise to Double… Again!
Guest post by David Middleton Sea levels could rise far more rapidly than expected in coming decades, according to new research that reveals Antarctica’s vast ice cap is less stable…
Claim: Huge Earthquake overdue Pacific North West
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t IceAgeNow – seismologist Chris Goldfinger has warned that a gigantic Earthquake, just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, with the potential to kill…
Gigantic asteroid near miss coming this Thursday
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Express reports that a colossal one mile wide asteroid will brush past the Earth this Thursday, with a closest approach of 3 million kilometres…
World Disasters Report for 2013 – lowest number of catastrophies and deaths in 10 years
Alexej Buergin writes in WUWT Tips and Notes about a report from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) that puts climate alarmism’s claims of increased…
Insurance companies not seeing effects from posited 'climate change' spawned weather disasters
Lack of major disasters gets Lloyd’s of London back in profit – WUWT reader “jimbo” writes in Tips and Notes: We often hear how climate disasters / extreme weather events…
Top 10 reasons the new WordPress Beep Boop Boob editor is a stunning failure.
(WUWT readers, please excuse this distraction while I holler at WUWT’s hosting provider, wordpress.com. As Willis would say, “my blood is mightily angrified”.) I have generally been supportive of most…
Why does it always seem to snow in Hollywood Global Warming Films?
Because warm weather isn’t deadly enough Submitted by Eric Worrall The Federalist has a hilarious article, which discusses Hollywood’s big problem portraying Global Warming; its hard to make a nice…
Study: What is driving the rising cost of natural disasters?
Prof. John McAneney Managing Director Dr. Ryan Crompton Chief Research Officer, Risk Frontiers, Macquarie University Australia Flood in Bangkok. October 2011. Thailand It is a widely held view that climate…
Dilbert becomes skeptical of climate change disaster
From Scott Adams (creator of the Dilbert comic strip) blog, who seems to have stumbled across an interview with the author of this video we recently highlighted at WUWT. Scott…
Global Warming causing biblical plagues – like locusts
My first question when I read this headline was: With Passover Approaching, a Plague of Locusts Descends Upon Egypt “how long before somebody tries to blame this on global warming,…
A problem that is bigger than global warming
In light of what happened yesterday, this story is even more relevant now. It was written before the meteor event in Russia. Asteroid 2012 DA14 makes its closest approach at…
How to learn nothing from the 2010 flooding in Brisbane
From Griffith University Flood research shows human habits die hard Climate Change experts examine rebuilding New research has come up with ways to quickly assess flood damage to houses while…
The Atlantic Magazine's '5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried'… Worried about scientific illiteracy.
Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA…
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