Disaster “Tax”

[Trakar]

The Disaster “Tax”
Drought damage could top $200 billion
…If the drought pattern continues, its damage estimates could be near $200 billion, making it the country’s costliest natural disaster of 2012 and 2013– even more costly than Hurricane Sandy.
“We’re still in a pattern of wild weather ‘extremes,’ the worst in more than 1,000 years, since the days of Leif Ericsson. For example, 2012 was the warmest year ever for the U.S., but on January 22, 2013, there was a record for the most ice and snow across the Northern Hemisphere continent,” Harris added.
The Harris-Mann Climatology outlook is the first to show the drought growing to the east. The National Weather Service’s U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook, updated on May 16, shows drought improving or leaving much of the central Plains and areas east of the Mississippi River. The National Weather Service Outlook also sees a dry and hot summer, though the Southwest is the target for the driest and hottest forecast of the summer. Click here for more.

Either way, citizens are on the hook for the damages done by a changing climate, we can either pay a little now to reduce the potential of future damages due to AGW, or we can let future generations pay for damages and any corrections needed to address the behavior consequences of current generations.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

we can either pay a little now to reduce the potential of future damages due to AGW, or we can let future generations pay for damages and any corrections needed to address the behavior consequences of current generations. [/FONT][/SIZE]

dear, as long as we're in a 10-20 year cooling period while we're supposed to be on the rising slope of the famous hockey stick its safe to assume no one cares anymore. Heck, even Al GOre does not care anymore. His new book is not about AGW at all; apparently the planetary emergency is over and so is the moral crisis of his life.

It helps that the ACE (accumulated cyclonic energy) trend is way down too. Gee, it was supposed to be the opposite. I wonder what happened??

 

[Trakar]

we can either pay a little now to reduce the potential of future damages due to AGW, or we can let future generations pay for damages and any corrections needed to address the behavior consequences of current generations. [/FONT][/SIZE]

dear, as long as we're in a 10-20 year cooling period while we're supposed to be on the rising slope of the famous hockey stick its safe to assume no one cares anymore. Heck, even Al GOre does not care anymore. His new book is not about AGW at all; apparently the planetary emergency is over and so is the moral crisis of his life.

It helps that the ACE (accumulated cyclonic energy) trend is way down too. Gee, it was supposed to be the opposite. I wonder what happened??

Unsupported, largely factually incorrect, and completely without merit or relevance to the OP.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

we can either pay a little now to reduce the potential of future damages due to AGW, or we can let future generations pay for damages and any corrections needed to address the behavior consequences of current generations. [/FONT][/SIZE]

dear, as long as we're in a 10-20 year cooling period while we're supposed to be on the rising slope of the famous hockey stick its safe to assume no one cares anymore. Heck, even Al GOre does not care anymore. His new book is not about AGW at all; apparently the planetary emergency is over and so is the moral crisis of his life.

It helps that the ACE (accumulated cyclonic energy) trend is way down too. Gee, it was supposed to be the opposite. I wonder what happened??

Unsupported, largely factually incorrect, and completely without merit or relevance to the OP.

what makes you think there will be future damages due to AGW when ACE shows reduced cyclonic energy??? And when heat saves more lives than cold does, assuming the current cooling trend reverses someday.

 

[Trakar]

dear, as long as we're in a 10-20 year cooling period while we're supposed to be on the rising slope of the famous hockey stick its safe to assume no one cares anymore. Heck, even Al GOre does not care anymore. His new book is not about AGW at all; apparently the planetary emergency is over and so is the moral crisis of his life.

It helps that the ACE (accumulated cyclonic energy) trend is way down too. Gee, it was supposed to be the opposite. I wonder what happened??

Unsupported, largely factually incorrect, and completely without merit or relevance to the OP.

what makes you think there will be future damages due to AGW when ACE shows reduced cyclonic energy??? And when heat saves more lives than cold does, assuming the current cooling trend reverses someday.

The conditions this thread is intended to discuss revolve around the relevant business researches and findings and accepted mainstream scientific understandings. Your assertions are inaccurate and largely irrelevant to the OP and the topic of discussion in this thread.

 

[tjvh]

The Disaster “Tax”
Drought damage could top $200 billion
…If the drought pattern continues, its damage estimates could be near $200 billion, making it the country’s costliest natural disaster of 2012 and 2013– even more costly than Hurricane Sandy.
“We’re still in a pattern of wild weather ‘extremes,’ the worst in more than 1,000 years, since the days of Leif Ericsson. For example, 2012 was the warmest year ever for the U.S., but on January 22, 2013, there was a record for the most ice and snow across the Northern Hemisphere continent,” Harris added.
The Harris-Mann Climatology outlook is the first to show the drought growing to the east. The National Weather Service’s U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook, updated on May 16, shows drought improving or leaving much of the central Plains and areas east of the Mississippi River. The National Weather Service Outlook also sees a dry and hot summer, though the Southwest is the target for the driest and hottest forecast of the summer. Click here for more.

Either way, citizens are on the hook for the damages done by a changing climate, we can either pay a little now to reduce the potential of future damages due to AGW, or we can let future generations pay for damages and any corrections needed to address the behavior consequences of current generations.

Thanks for your informative post, I wasn't aware humans had any control over the weather or that billions of dollars could be spent to ensure future generations were safe from changing weather patterns.

 

[Trakar]

The Disaster “Tax”
Drought damage could top $200 billion
…If the drought pattern continues, its damage estimates could be near $200 billion, making it the country’s costliest natural disaster of 2012 and 2013– even more costly than Hurricane Sandy.
“We’re still in a pattern of wild weather ‘extremes,’ the worst in more than 1,000 years, since the days of Leif Ericsson. For example, 2012 was the warmest year ever for the U.S., but on January 22, 2013, there was a record for the most ice and snow across the Northern Hemisphere continent,” Harris added.
The Harris-Mann Climatology outlook is the first to show the drought growing to the east. The National Weather Service’s U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook, updated on May 16, shows drought improving or leaving much of the central Plains and areas east of the Mississippi River. The National Weather Service Outlook also sees a dry and hot summer, though the Southwest is the target for the driest and hottest forecast of the summer. Click here for more.

Either way, citizens are on the hook for the damages done by a changing climate, we can either pay a little now to reduce the potential of future damages due to AGW, or we can let future generations pay for damages and any corrections needed to address the behavior consequences of current generations.

Thanks for your informative post, I wasn't aware humans had any control over the weather or that billions of dollars could be spent to ensure future generations were safe from changing weather patterns.

What you take from my words was not explicit, nor intentionally implicit in their usage, it is probably better to ask questions if you are not certain what someone is saying rather than continuing to improperly understand and risk sounding foolish through misrepresenting their words.

 

[Old Rocks]

The problem here is that the "Conservatives" believe that facing reality will be admitting that they have been wrong ever since the debate concerning the warming and it's effects started.

As the effects become increasingly costly, both on the scale of state and federal governments, we are also going to be paying the cost individually. Even those of us not directly impacted by the weather will be paying higher prices for food, as we see the effects of droughts and floods on agriculture.

 

[Trakar]

The problem here is that the "Conservatives" believe that facing reality will be admitting that they have been wrong ever since the debate concerning the warming and it's effects started.

As the effects become increasingly costly, both on the scale of state and federal governments, we are also going to be paying the cost individually. Even those of us not directly impacted by the weather will be paying higher prices for food, as we see the effects of droughts and floods on agriculture.

Worse than this they are trying to use extreme political ideology and filters to strain reality into acceptable support for their extreme beliefs.

Regardless, such is irrelevant to this thread, which like most of those I start this summer are about specific problems and viable public policy means of addressing those specific problems. So far, such seems to be beyond the capacity and capabilities of some here to discuss. If they have nothing to offer in the way of topically relevant discussion, it merely demonstrates one of the many failures of their ideological pathos.