The left is desperate to divert our attention away from the ideologically-driven incompetence of California government at all levels, but their favorite ADD squirrel—climate change—isn’t working. CNN’s opinion survey maven Harry Enten notes:
Meanwhile, you can expect to hear the usual claim that climate change-related weather disaster are soaring in cost. As Roger Pielke Jr. has been pointing out for more than a decade, the numbers are never adjusted for inflation, or for population density (when more people live in hurricane zones, of course the losses will go up). Roger further notes that when you look at weather catastrophe losses as a percent of GDP, they have been steadily falling for decades:
The climatistas might want to emulate the car rental companies and take out a loss-damage waiver on this talking point.
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