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> How much more are you willing to pay to rebuild Miami after bigger hurricanes do more damage? There is no evidence that hurricanes are getting bigger or more
by Turing_Machine 3y ago
> How much more are you willing to pay to rebuild Miami after bigger hurricanes do more damage?
There is no evidence that hurricanes are getting bigger or more frequent. If anything, the record shows the opposite.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml
Edit: this data set goes through 2022 (the previous chart only went up to 2004)
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.htm...
- acdha 3y agoThe scientific consensus is that hurricanes will be stronger and wetter, but it’s complicated to say exactly what that means regionally since there’s considerable natural variation and we have limited historical records for most of the oceans and many regions which weren’t historically densely populated. There’s a good overview here which discusses different aspects and the confidence levels on predictions both globally and for the Atlantic: https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/ https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/