12 March 2011

Billion dollar climate and weather disasters


Graphic from NOAA (where all the billion-dollar diasters are listed), via the Paul Douglas On Weather blog.

2 comments:

  1. Would you overlay Tea Party Strength on this chart? What, you don't need to???

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  2. I wonder what population distributions would look like if taxpayers weren't constantly bilked to bail out residents. Would cities be built further off the coast, or houses built on stilts? How about houses built partially underground to stand up to hurricane, but watertight to stave off temporary flooding? Since you're the dopes paying, they just build the same old houses, with the same dumb results.

    As an aside, I'm glad that progs have a tangible enemy to pour their derision into. It's easier than addressing issues, isn't it?

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