Posted on 12/09/2022 5:12:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
This past year has seen a horrific flood that submerged one-third of Pakistan, one of the three costliest U.S. hurricanes on record, devastating droughts in Europe and China, a drought-triggered famine in Africa and deadly heat waves all over.
Yet this wasn’t climate change at its worst.
With all that death and destruction in 2022, climate-related disaster damages are down from 2021, according to insurance and catastrophe giant Swiss Re. That’s the state of climate change in the 2020s that $268 billion in global disaster costs is a 12% drop from the previous year, where damage passed $300 billion.
The number of U.S. weather disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage is only at 15 through October and will likely end the year with 16 or 17, down from 22 and 20 in the last two years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But because of Hurricane Ian, overall damage amounts are probably going to end up in the top three in American history.
Weather disasters, many but not all of them turbocharged by human-caused climate change, are happening so frequently that this year’s onslaught, which 20 years ago would have smashed records by far, now in some financial measures seems a bit of a break from recent years. Welcome to the new abnormal.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Will they count all the people that freeze and starve this winter?
OMG!!!
If only the US had spent more tax dollars, bought mor Impossible burgers and Beyond Meat chicken this could have been avoided./s
Human-caused climate change is vastly different than, you know, weather.
Lie in the first sentence, the floods covered 8 percent of Pakistan not 33 percent.
https://iowaclimate.org/2022/09/05/pakistan-floods-is-a-third-really-submerged/
Due to 10% inflation, (using last year’s dollar for comparison) actual cost is $241,200,000,000. We are doing better than we thought.
The hallmark of a climate change lie is the use of metaphorical language. The article mentions weather “turbocharged by climate change”. A turbocharger compresses exhaust gas from an engine and injects it back into the cylinders. There is nothing about climate change that makes car engines produce more horsepower. The terms “code red for the planet” or “the planet is on life support” are other similar phrases. They are designed to exaggerate and produce alarm. The planet does not have “codes” and it is not on a ventilator and IV drip.
Thank Gaia that only poorer countries were hit hard, reducing the cost and damage. /s
Now maybe the rest of the world can see our improvements and start spending as much time, effort, and their own capitol as we do. (at least as much as us) Then maybe they wont be punished as badly next year. /s again.....
Doesn't anyone READ any more?
Probably the most expensive hurricane was the one in 1715 that sank 10 Spanish galleons laden with treasure.
Clownish propaganda alert.
Humanity has never seen climate CHAOS like this......We’ve seen worse.
If only the seas would rise and swallow Gore, Kerry, Obama, Decaprio et al while at their beachfront properties...
1) Climate and other natural events are covered in much greater scrutiny, under an ever-changing, ever more melodramatic paradigm; e.g.: we see more 'named storms' now because the criteria for labeling 'named storms' has broadened. The very concept of 'named storms' only came about in the 1950s.
2) Many more people exist now than in the past, and many of them live on or near coastlines, making the amount of damage greater due to the simple fact that there is more man-made stuff that gets wrecked.
3) Everything costs much more than in the past, due to inflation over the decades, so what was a '100 million dollar storm' years ago is now a 'billion dollar storm', even though the weather events themselves were identical.
But no, according to our self-anointed intellectual elites, it's all due to 'climate change'.
Which of the damages caused by climate change can be PROVEN to have been caused by human action & which are random nature? If they could be proven to have been caused by human action, then maybe such things could be prevented in the future, but real climate change is not something we humans can change. That job is already in someone else’s domain. When I hear about climate change it needs to be PROVEN that it is something we humans could have done something about & not just something that requires money for the government’s slush funds. From what I have seen so far, it seems to be for the latter. Tornadoes & hurricanes are things affected by climate that really cause a lot of damage, but can anyone claim to be able to step up & prevent them? They only seem to say that they need more money to stop something they can do nothing about.
A couple of things wrong with your statement. A turbocharger does neither compress exhaust gases nor force them back into the cylinder to increase horsepower. That action is performed with fresh air. The exhaust gases merely power the impellers in the turbo. Certain climate changes such as denser air CAN make an engine produce more power though. That is also the function of an intercooler on a supercharged or turbo system on an engine.
Yes, I'm going to use real butter.
What difference does it make if I'll be dead next Saturday?
/sarc
I'm just so flustered by the horror of it all that I cannot tpye.
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