# Jessica Weinkle 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:** Policy scholar, University of North Carolina Wilmington ⚠️ (affiliation from memory); studies disaster losses and risk policy - Lead author of Weinkle, Landsea, Collins, Musulin, Crompton, Klotzbach & Pielke (2018), "Normalized hurricane damage in the continental United States 1900–2017", *Nature Sustainability* 1:808–813, doi:[10.1038/s41893-018-0165-2](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0165-2). - That paper estimates ~US$17bn a year in normalized damage, with no significant trend in normalized losses, landfalls or intense landfalls. Its update to 2019 is the right panel of Lomborg's Fig. 16. - She co-authored the reply to Martinez (2020) in *Nature Sustainability* ⚠️ (author list not re-checked). - Relevant to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on Normalized US Hurricane Damage (2026-10-27)|Normalized US Hurricane Damage]] and [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on Declining US Landfalling Hurricanes (2026-10-14)|Declining US Landfalling Hurricanes]]. Co-authors: [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/Philip Klotzbach|Philip Klotzbach]] and [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/People/Roger Pielke Jr|Roger Pielke Jr]].