We now have the full data for worldwide hurricanes in 2024.
Source: Colorado State University
Last year reinforced previous conclusions that hurricanes are nether becoming more frequent, nor more intense, as measured by the number of the stronger Cat 3, 4 and 5 storms and by accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), an index used to measure the activity of a cyclone/hurricane season.
Meanwhile a new study has found that the destructive power of hurricanes has declined in the Indian Ocean since the mid-1990s. Elsewhere there has been little trend at all, the study found.
The BBC continue to ignore the real world data as well as the verdict of hurricane experts. Instead they remorselessly push the lie that hurricanes are getting worse.
At the end of last year’s Atlantic hurricane season, weatherman Ben Rich proclaimed that the season had ‘broken records’, when it was barely above average. He went on to state that global warming had made every Atlantic hurricane last year stronger, a claim propagated by the climate lobbyist group, Climate Central, without a shred of data to back it up.
We have limited data on hurricanes prior to the satellite era, which began in the 1980s. But what we do know is that the most powerful hurricane to hit the US was the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935. The second strongest was Camille in 1969, and the third was Andrew in 1992. If hurricanes really were getting more powerful, we would expect to see such storms happening now.
It’s not just China!
RIGHTLY we focus on China when we are looking at emissions of carbon dioxide. They account for a third of the world’s emissions.
But they are by no means the only country with rapidly rising emissions which dwarf those of the UK. India and the rest of Asia emit almost as much carbon dioxide as China. Asia as a whole emitted 22.6billion tonnes of CO2 in 2023, while the UK’s emissions were 0.3billion tonnes.
In 2015 all these countries signed up to the Paris Climate Agreement which we were told was going to save the planet. Yet they have carried on as if Paris had never happened.
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions
In fact, outside the OECD the same can be said for most countries, as the examples of Brazil and Mexico exemplify.
Both emit more than the UK does. Brazil pledged in the Paris Agreement an emissions cut of 37 per cent from 2005 levels by this year. At the last count in 2023, emissions were 30 per cent higher.
As for Mexico, their pledge made clear that emissions would carry on rising anyway, just not as fast as they would have otherwise.
While Ed Miliband wants to send the UK back to the Dark Ages, the rest of the world is getting on with business as usual.
