FactCheck.org has a story up on global warming which has some major errors in citing our work on hurricanes. It states,

One dissenter from the consensus view, Roger Pielke Jr., says perceptions regarding hurricanes in particular are skewed by recent major storms, and adds:

Pielke : Claims of linkage between global warming and hurricane impacts are premature . . . (and) any future changes in hurricane intensities will likely be small in the context of observed variability.

Pielke directs the University of Colorado’s Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and maintains the Prometheus science policy web log.

This is wrong on two counts as readers here know well:

1) I accept the consensus view of the IPCC WG I on the science of climate change.

2) Our hurricane work that they cite comes from a peer reviewed paper (in BAMS) which presents research that is well within the range of current scientific discussion on climate change. By suggesting that there is a consensus and dissenting view on hurricanes Factcheck.org gets it wrong.