Increased economic damages from hurricanes in the United States are due to the country's growing population and wealth centered on coastlines, not to any spike in the number or intensity of hurricanes, according to new research by experts at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Natural Hazards Review paper, “Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900-2005,” contradicts some claims that climate change, increasing the intensity and volume of storms, is increasing losses.
“There is nothing in the U.S. hurricane damage record that indicates global warming has caused a significant increase in destruction along our coasts,” said Chris Landsea, one of the researchers and the science and operations officer at NOAA's National Hurricane Center in Miami.
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