Mallen Baker 
One particular graph from NOAA, showing the rapid increase in billion dollar disasters in the US, has been getting regular attention – not least from the office of the president of the United States. But while people have been suggesting that it proves the growing cost of climate change, in reality, it never sought to do that, and it simply doesn’t.
A recent article in the Washington Post looked behind the scenes of where the graph came from, what it really shows, why people have been misrepresenting it, and what can we conclude on the topic overall.
Let’s discuss.
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The real reason billion-dollar disasters like Hurricane Helene are growing more common, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/billion-dollar-disasters-climate-change-economy/
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Coastal areas used to be limited to fishermen and shipping, with a smattering of vacation cottages of little value. Now people are building high-end homes right behind the dunes. Great video.
Weather warfare is at play. we need to stop geoengineering of the sky world wide
It sure feels like we are getting more 100 year events than in the past, suggesting that they are not really 100 year events anymore. Migration trends away from the rust belt and into the sun belt are intuitively an even bigger factor.
#1. Global warming and bad weather is minor cost. US yearly suffers $250b from bad weather which is easily covered by $25,000b economy. Maybe $100b is from global warming, so $250b would be $150b if no warming… $100b is $300 per American negative. But ON THE POSITIVE SIDE having about 1/2 month more of non-winter weather is worth maybe $3000 so much more than $300 to me personally, and professionally I have more energy for my day job. 10X gain! $3000-300. I am $2700 richer in spirit and pocket. SO GLOBAL WARMING IS MAKING AMERICANS HAPPIER AND RICHER.
#2. I pity the people by equator, but not Americans. The cost of 2 billion people by equator facing 1 more months of sweating while farming, is maybe not worth nicer weather for 1 billion away from equator?
#3. House prices rise 50% a decade in dollars, so $100,000 becomes $150000 then $225000 then $400000. So even if assume 1% more of housing is damaged due to warming, so 1% becomes 2%, the other 98% have these massive profits. So, since price rises SWAMP ANY COSTS OF DAMAGES AND INSURANCE now is wonderful time to own real estate even in warm US parts! Do the math, real estate in warm Florida is still great investment, despite harms and insurance.
#4. One has to ask, for northerners shouldn't we WANT MORE WARMING?????? As Minnesotan, the answer for me is easily yes, frosbite cheeks and hour a day so about 100 hours of misery, this is 100 hours a year of torture and burning and aches, and maybe 500 less hours than my Florida cousins outside a year. My mom broke her ankle on ice, clean break in half, and spent 6 months in bed and then 1000 hours of therapy and now her right leg is still half useless, so my lord is more warming wanted by her and all old people in north if it drops bad crippling bone breaks by 10% so 10 million becomes 9 million??.
Professor Roger Pielke makes some good graphs on this topic.
He takes insurance data, and adjusts for GDP, and this shows that claims are reducing.
He also has graphs of USA landfall hurricanes, which show no change over 120 years.
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Here in Houston how risky is hurricane is constant argument. The truth is only in the 1 mile coastal flood area will a house face say 20% risk of collapse, or people drowning in it. This is the 1 mile the city ORDERS EVAC. The other 99% of state is safe, buildings after 2000 are wind proof. These 99% of areas do face like 1 month without power, and maybe 10% might suffer this, and the officials try to panic these people into evac to avoid the month of complaints from them. To be fair sweating without power in August would seem like Hell to Americans, so we are so spoiled we evac for mere comfort not safety. Hurricanes overall are NOT that deadly in any decade in FL, like 1 in 100,000 risk to Tampa metro even if none evac, so each decade Tampa metro of 3 million loses 300 dead to hurricane maybe, but traffic accident kills 10000, showing due to good construction even hurricanes are NOT that deadly. I hope that makes sense. Fear and risk to comfort drive things, not actual risk to life from hurricanes.
Thank you.
I have lived a long life in Florida and I appreciate your talking about us. Weather is not my first choice to demonstrate climate change. I live twenty miles inland from the Gulf Coast and experienced all three of the resent hurricanes. Being inland is a big plus. As for those who want to live in coastal areas, there are risks. The fact is that coastal development has been mostly by new out of state people. Frankly developers have pushed it. All of this home damage hinges on the building and it's location. An off the ground well constructed building can withstand most bad weather, provided your island is not washed away. Lots of people living in flimsy houses on vulnerable locations is the issue. Climate change just makes it worse.
It's so obvious that huge events carved away the land until it became what it is today and the hubris needed to claim that it's all the fault of humans is pretty sketchy. Moreover it's also rediculous to presume that WE can govern the climate by subtracting our activities such as burning oil. The CLIMATE FORCING we are doing with Geo Engineering is some pretty stupid stuff. Being able to see through the sickness off hubris is not a pleasant or comforting ability. People have just lost their minds over pretending to be God. It is evil that carries out these agendas. SICK SICK SICK !
Destroying our culture with theories 😢
The alarmists never learned the lesson from "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"… Everyone gets so tired of listening to the doom and gloom or the denials that when stuff really happens, it goes unnoticed. As you stated, we need to have adult conversations about it, but mostly can't due to the folks that have to turn it into something it's not.
Well, this topic is harsh.
What is this study claiming increased rain fall due to climate change.
For 10 years, these same types of people claimed the extreme drought in the western United States was caused by climate change.
Not a peep when in 18 months the great salt lake had risen by 5 feet or a deeper pipe for las vegas at the hoover dam
Would no longer be necessary.
So climate change causes the problem, but what then fixes it.
The weather changes
All things bad are man made climate change.
But what of the good.
I suppose good weather is just climate change, not man made.
But bad results are always because of man.
I struggle with this concept and the people who create graphics to perpetrat it.
I'm coming to the conclusion that this is hubris on steroids.
And it's all about money.
Soon depleted 1 thousand pound toxic batteries are going to be piling up like cordwood.
And be the time they start leaching into the water table most of the people responsible will be dead.
You want to spend money.
Let's set up the monstrosity needed to deal environmentally
With those.
500 billion would be a good start.
Good video
But it's frustrating for some of us.
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Intersting the word "Carbon" or "CO2" was never used in this clip….
Just "Human made climate change".
Earth's magnetic shielding has deteriated to it lowest point in recent times. Something that humans have no control over.
Surely this would have some impact if not the major contributor. But lets stick with "Human Man Made Climare Change" and ignore the elephant in the room.
The fact that NOAA are using this data to scare us shows why many of us no longer have faith in those pushing an AGW agenda