“The frequency (and strength) of hurricanes making landfall in the continental U.S. has declined slightly since 1900.”
What PolitiFact found
There is no trend up or down for U.S. landfall hurricanes since 1900. Storm strength has increased since about 1980.
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In short
Bjorn Lomborg (President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center) made this claim around 3 September 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 September 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Bjorn Lomborg has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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