04 January 2011  Signals of Anthropogenic Climate Change in
Disaster Data  [UPDATE: Joe Romm blows a gasket on this paper. 
Have a look at his post and you'll get a sense why it is that he
dodged an opportunity to debate me last year (an offer that
remains open) even after a donor promised $20,000 to Doctors
Without Borders if he'd participate.]   At ClimateWire, Evan
Lehmann has a lengthy overview (also here at the NYT) of a new
paper by Ryan Crompton, John McAneney (both of Macquarie
University) and me on detecting signals of human-caused climate
change in disaster losses. Ryan, who is wicked smart, did the
heavy lifting and heavy thinking on it and deserves credit for
what should be a widely influential article.  Lehmann writes in
the article:      The study that we build off of is Bender et
al. 2010 which argues that under their projected changes in the
behavior of hurricanes a signal will not be detectable in the
geophysical data until later this century.  If it takes that
long to detect a signal in the