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   Peter Gleick (petergleick@fediscience.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:04:25 JST Peter Gleick

   The number of "billion dollar disasters" in the United States is increasing rapidly. This graph (from NOAA) shows the number and breakdown of such disasters since 1980.

   Two important trends: a rapid increase in the number, and especially in "severe storms."
   These trends are another indication of the growing costs of #climatechange and the role that #water and the disruption of the planet's hydrologic cycle plays in it.

   Oh, and 2023 isn't over yet. Two months to go.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:28:28 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:

     @adamshostack @petergleick
     That would be interesting! It’s a trickier question than CPI what relationship we’d expect to see with population. Does it work as another raw normalization, because the pop vs disaster cost relationship should be linear? Or should we expect be economies of scale? Some sort of more constant “cost of civilization” baseline? Greater-than-linear complexity costs? Would “populated land area” or “total value of infra” be better normalization points? I truly have no idea.

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     Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: (adamshostack@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:28:29 JST Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @petergleick @inthehands I see this is CPI adjusted (cool!). Is there a version that normalizes against population growth?

     (Yes there’s complexity of overall growth vs growth in high danger areas).