Writing in the New York Times today Coral Davenport makes a strong claim about typhoons in the Philippines:
A series of scientific reports have linked the burning of fossil fuels with rising sea levels and more powerful typhoons, like those that have battered the island nation.
I am unaware of any scientific report that has linked the burning of fossil fuels to more powerful typhoons, whether they have hit the Philippines or not. Via Twitter I have challenged Davenport to substantiate her claim (she is correct about sea level rise).
That’s not really fair of me, because she can’t. The graph at the top of this post comes from a 2009 paper by Kubota and Chan (here and here), which concluded “no trend is found.”
Below is a graph from a post I did last year when the exact same false claims were made following the disastrous landfall…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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