Number of named storms (aka Typhoons, in Asia) is steady

This is not to be a “climate denier”. It’s to say we have to use the best data we have. For the US, that’s from the US Department of Atmospheric Science and their figures show that there has been no increase in the severity of “named storms”, aka “hurricanes” aka, in Asia “typhoons” since 1980

Patrick Brown:

I listened to two @nytimes The Daily podcasts on topics related to climate change and hurricanes this week. Both give the overwhelming impression that we have seen substantial increases in hurricane strength/frequency. That’s just not true.

Brown has a lot more at that link.

By the way, the same kind of pattern is true for forest fires, drought and floods. We are getting more and more reports of them, coz social media, and we are worried about climate change, so we think there are more. But in fact there are not more. As I have shown before, and will repost here, when time permits.