[struggle]

Will they count all the people that freeze and starve this winter?

[N. Theknow]

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.

[themidnightskulker]

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.

[Jim Noble]

This past year has seen a horrific flood that submerged one-third of Pakistan

Doesn't anyone READ any more?

[mfish13]

Probably the most expensive hurricane was the one in 1715 that sank 10 Spanish galleons laden with treasure.

[Vision]

Clownish propaganda alert.

[alstewartfan]

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...

[Joe Brower]

All this 'news' about all these 'disasters' conveniently ignores a few large factors that make them seem worse than they actually are:

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'.

[oldtech]

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.