Is it possible that there is an "intensity inflation" in recent tropical cyclones due to advancements in observation technology?

Roger Pielke, Jr. examines the relation of tropical cyclones to global climate change in some detail in one section of The Climate Fix (2010). He reports that "hurricane landfalls in the United States have not increased in frequency or intensity over the period [from 1900 to 2005]", citing this letter, which reports that "claims to connect Atlantic hurricanes with global warming are premature." Pielke concludes the section on tropical cyclones by stating that: "it is misleading to suggest that the increasing toll of losses related to tropical cyclones has been influenced by accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."

The clearest human impact is in the sheer degree of development of dangerous hurricane zones in the United States.

Pielke cited the results of a collaboration he had done to investigate exactly this hypothesis013%3C0621:NHDITU%3E2.0.CO;2). The main results: when tropical cyclone loss data are normalized to development, "the trend of increasing damage amounts in recent decades disappears".

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