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DarrinS
03-20-2014, 10:02 AM
interesting article, but the comment section might be even more interesting


http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/disasters-cost-more-than-ever-but-not-because-of-climate-change/
DarrinS
03-20-2014, 10:03 AM
botox' favorite "news" site is not pleased

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/19/3416369/538-climate-article/
boutons_deux
03-20-2014, 10:22 AM
Looks like Nate Silver is AGW denier

http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/fivethirtyeights_disappointing.php

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/19/3416369/538-climate-article/
Wild Cobra
03-20-2014, 10:24 AM
But the alarmists, warmers, and climastologists have their own reality.
Wild Cobra
03-20-2014, 10:26 AM
Looks like Nate Silver is AGW denier

http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/fivethirtyeights_disappointing.php

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/19/3416369/538-climate-article/
Considering you alarmists chronically use "denier" in misleading ways, how can you expect to be listened to? We laugh instead.
DarrinS
03-20-2014, 10:28 AM
Looks like Nate Silver is AGW denier

http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/fivethirtyeights_disappointing.php

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/19/3416369/538-climate-article/



Yeah, I already posted that knee-jerk reaction from your moonbat site.
MannyIsGod
03-20-2014, 10:47 AM
Don't have a huge problem with the article. He's right in that increased property damages are the main driver in increased cost of natural disasters. He doesn't talk about how climate change makes certain disasters worse (anything involving flooding along the coast, for instance) and he glosses over increased heat waves and intense precipitation very dismissively. Heat waves can be very expensive and have lar

But the overall point that climate change isn't the main driver of increased costs due to natural disasters is valid, IMO.
boutons_deux
03-20-2014, 11:06 AM
Don't have a huge problem with the article. He's right in that increased property damages are the main driver in increased cost of natural disasters. He doesn't talk about how climate change makes certain disasters worse (anything involving flooding along the coast, for instance) and he glosses over increased heat waves and intense precipitation very dismissively. Heat waves can be very expensive and have lar

But the overall point that climate change isn't the main driver of increased costs due to natural disasters is valid, IMO.

While the US govt coastal disaster insurance is many $Bs in the hole, taxpayers still subsidize tidal/flood zone residents, businesses who refuse to pay insurance premiums that match the risk.
RandomGuy
03-20-2014, 01:09 PM
interesting article, but the comment section might be even more interesting


http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/disasters-cost-more-than-ever-but-not-because-of-climate-change/

Good link out of that is to Munich Re's website with the source data for your article.

http://www.munichreamerica.com/mram/en/events/Webinar/2014-01-natcatreview/index.html