The watchdog group who issued the challenge makes a compelling case that Biden’s expansion of government is the reason for the alleged climate crisis.

Protect the Public’s Trust cited a new study that combed through data used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for its climate and disaster tracking project and found it inflated damages and made inexplicable data calculations that did not factor in obvious contributions to disaster costs, such as an increase in development in coastal regions and other areas vulnerable to hurricanes, flooding or wildfires.

Most recently, NOAA ballooned the cost of damages from Hurricane Idalia, an August 2023 storm that impacted the southeastern part of the United States.

While insured losses from wind damage and flooding totaled $310 million through mid-November of 2023, NOAA estimated the storm caused losses of $3.6 billion, or 12 times the damage covered by insurance.

Idalia’s steep costs were included in NOAA’s Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters tracking project, which has been used by the Biden administration to push its climate change agenda by saying weather events are becoming much more severe and costly, to the tune of billions of dollars in damages each year.

Since the NOAA operates under the jurisdiction of the Commerce Department, Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed the complaint with the agency and the group’s report cites the Billions Project dataset. The information PPT obtained reviewing the program’s information focuses on natural disasters that have caused at least $1 billion in damages over the past 40 + years.

PPT’s complaint alleges that NOAA does not adequately disclose its sources and methods for compiling the BDD [billion dollars disaster] dataset, adds and removes BDD events from the dataset without providing its rationale for doing so and produces cost estimates that are sometimes significantly different than those generated by more conventional accounting procedures.

While NOAA states that it develops its BDD data from more than a dozen sources, the agency does not disclose those sources for specific events or show how it calculates loss estimates from those sources, PPT’s complaint alleges.

…Further, the complaint alleges that BDD events are quietly added and removed from the dataset without explanation, citing Roger Pielke Jr., a former academic who believes climate change to be a real threat but opposes politicized science. In a forthcoming paper analyzing the merits of BDD statistics, Pielke compared the dataset in late 2022 to the dataset in the middle of 2023 and found that ten new BDD events were added to the list and 3 were subtracted without explanation.

Apart from the issues with methodology alleged by PPT in its complaint, the use of BDD events as a proxy for climate change’s intensity is inherently misleading because economic data does not reflect changes in meteorological conditions, Pielke has previously explained to the DCNF.

According to the group’s analysis, The “Billions Project” cost estimates are dramatically different from the standard accounting practices for disaster loss estimates. As it turn out, the program’s hurricane loss assessments are much higher than the estimates from another NOAA branch.

The game is played similar to how it was done with COVID-19. If anyone went against the established science the media and social media woke crowds would silence anyone who dared challenge them or dissent. Then billions of dollars are dished out to parties who support the regime in order to solve the problem (i.e. quid pro quo).

Thankfully, a lot more people are wising up to the propaganda and false news reporting. The undermining of the Administrative or Deep State, if not the entire establishment can’t happen a moment too soon.