# Aslak Grinsted Back to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/People|Lomborg People]] · [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|@BjornLomborg]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] **Role:** Glaciologist and climate scientist, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen ⚠️ (affiliation from memory and the PNAS author line, not re-checked) - Lead author of Grinsted, Ditlevsen & Christensen (2019), "Normalized US hurricane damage estimates using area of total destruction, 1900−2018", *PNAS* 116(48):23942–23946, doi:[10.1073/pnas.1912277116](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1912277116). - Its main finding: measured as "area of total destruction", normalized US hurricane damage shows a significant **positive** trend of 1,093 km² per century (95% CI 459–1,757). This contradicts the flat trend in the [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/Jessica Weinkle|Weinkle et al. 2018]] normalization that Lomborg uses. - It is the counterpoint in [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on Normalized US Hurricane Damage (2026-10-27)|Normalized US Hurricane Damage]].