Is climate change causing more powerful storms? What is the observation?

US tornadoes lowest in history link

UN climate related disasters 2000-2019 link

A remarkable decline in landfall hurricanes 2020 link

2010s second quietest decade for landfall and major hurricanes since the 1850s link

Report, are weather extremes caused by global warming link

Major hurricane frequency decline chart 2018 Maue link

2020 US hurricane season link

Declining number of Gulf of Mexico hurricanes since 1851 link

This decade fewest major hurricanes to hit US mainland going back to 1850s link

NOAA "it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on hurricane activity. " report 8/15/219 link

chart US decline link

Maue chart, global hurricane frequency link

Typhoons hitting Japan 70 years decreasing link

Climate related deaths fallen dramatically link life expectancy increasing link

Roy Spencer, hurricane stength in decline though damage is up link

Hurricane frequency is not increasing link

Thru 2018 link

Overall no increase extreme weather link

US hurricanes down over 60% in the past 50 years link

Longest hurricane drought US history link

No trend in cyclone accumulated energy link

Global weather related disaster losses as a percentage of GDP is in decline link

The USA went over ten years without a major hurricane land strike, the longest period in history link

US landfall hurricanes in decline over the past century link

declining number and intensity of US hurricanes 1900-2017 charts link

US major landfall hurricanes down 50% since 1930s link

Tornadoes less common in USA link

Tornadoes on line to be fewest in history 2018 link

Uptick in USA tornadoes in 2019 due to unusually cold weather link

Viloent tornado decline USA since 1950 link

2018 record tornado activity, record low deaths link

Climate related deaths 1920-2018 chart 

The bottom line is there’s no solid connection between climate change and the major indicators of extreme weather, despite Trudeau’s claims to the contrary. The continual claim of such a link is misinformation employed for political and rhetorical purposes. Powerful people get away with it because so few people know what the numbers show. Many scientists who know better remain silent. And the few who push back against the propaganda, find themselves on the receiving end of abuse and career-threatening attacks, even though they have all the science in their corner.

 Hohenkammer Consensus Statement, named after the German town where 32 of the leading scientists in the field gathered in 2006 to sort out the evidence. They concluded that trends toward rising climate damages were mainly due to increased population and economic activity in the path of storms, that it was not currently possible to determine the portion of damages attributable to greenhouse gases, and that they didn’t expect that situation to change in the near future.

Floods

“Changes in the frequency of major floods are dominated by multidecadal variability.”

Increase in US billion dollar plus weather/climate/storm losses misleading link

Japanese study, hurricane intensity closely tied to natural ocean cycles link

fewer typhoons formed 1950-2017 (JMA) link

US hurricanes in decline over the last century link

No connection cyclones and global temperatures link

2018 storm losses at record low through mid year link

fatalities decline 80% in a half century link

Florida

no increase in the number or intensity of Florida hurricanes, Gulf 9th warmest, 7 were before 1970 link

Chart, declining number of c3+ hurricanes in USA link

Hurricane frequency in decline, chart link

Hurricane/typhoon energy, no trend link

"Here is the prevailing consensus opinion of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA GFDL): “In the Atlantic, it is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on hurricane activity"

Hurricane damage nature, US 1900-2017 no trend of increased damage or intensity, number of storms Consistent with observed trends in the frequency and intensity of hurricane landfalls along the continental United States since 1900, the updated normalized loss estimates also show no trend. A more detailed comparison of trends in hurricanes and normalized losses over various periods in the twentieth century to 2017 demonstrates a very high degree of consistency." link