Coastal Growth, Not Global Warming, Blamed for Rising Storm Losses
National News • February 25, 2008
A hurricane that hit Miami in 1926 would cause up to $157 billion in damage if it were to strike today, according to a recent study.
U.S. storm costs are rising because of higher populations and ...
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Subject: Will all the scientists please raise their hand
Posted On: February 26, 2008, 8:20 am CST
Posted By: NOYB
Comment:
All of you who have poo-pooed global warming, please list your scientific credentials.... I thought so .... I think if we compared all the scientific opinions on this, there is an overwhelming consensus that global warming, a/k/a climate change, is happening, and that it has been affected and accelerated by increased CO2 and other pollutants. And to inform you ignorami who blow without having read anything except that information put out by the well-paid scientific studies funded by Exxon, global warming is just the term for the first stage -- the result on Earth is not just warming but all extremes of weather - hot, cold, more and less precip.
Getting back to this article, does it have to be one or the other - seems the rising losses on the coast would be from both more severe storms and the building expansion - duh ! Those who build there should pay the real cost of insurance - not look to others' tax dollars or paying higher insurance to subsidize them.
Subject: Will all the scientists please raise their hand
Getting back to this article, does it have to be one or the other - seems the rising losses on the coast would be from both more severe storms and the building expansion - duh ! Those who build there should pay the real cost of insurance - not look to others' tax dollars or paying higher insurance to subsidize them.