Predictably, what with the regularity of the Earth’s orbit, hurricanes are in the news again.
And equally predictably, politicians eager to scare up votes, and the establishment media’s desire to attract eyeballs, “climate change” is taking the blame.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
At the same time, politicians are enacting climate change policies that are hurting Canadians in vastly larger numbers every single day.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Specifically, let’s look at some actual data, as studied by one of the world’s leading experts on hurricanes and hurricane-related losses.
As University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. observes in a 2018 study, “Inflation-adjusted CONUS [Continental US] hurricane losses show a significant increasing trend since 1900. However, there is an insignificant trend in CONUS landfalling hurricanes from 1900 to 2017.
Bottom line — it’s not the climate causing increased hurricane harms, it’s human fallibility and bad governmental incentives. What’s needed is not world-girdling weather-control policies but policies that create incentives for people to better assess and manage risk.Policies needed to prevent exaggerated harms in the future due to nature’s wrath require much more spine, and would mean telling people that no, they won’t be made fully whole if they get hit by a hurricane, and no, they can’t rebuild in the same place no matter how long their family has lived there.
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