[nkurz]

I think that's a great summary of the dispute. One small but significant correction I'd suggest is that (so far as I know) Pielke is not claiming that "the increase is entirely due to these non-weather changes". Rather, I've only seen him make the easier to satisfy claim that there is not yet sufficient evidence to say that climate change is causing such an increase: "We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and normalized catastrophe losses."

[mikeash]

Thanks, you're totally right, I overstated that.