http://inhabitat.com/2012-extreme-weather-the-second-most-costly-in-the-united-states-noaa-reports/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:48:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://inhabitat.com/2012-extreme-weather-the-second-most-costly-in-the-united-states-noaa-reports/comment-page-1/#comment-438866 styledoggie Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:50:33 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=469704#comment-438866 This is as much a measure of increasing wealth as storm severity. We have all kinds of stats on all kinds of 'extreme weather', but you won't define and enumerate the events, which is the way to show if extreme event are increasing or decreasing over time. This is unscientific marketing - attempting to use disasters and people's tendency to personalize them to show something is happening that isn't happening. The weather is pretty much the same as it's been since we started recording it. This is as much a measure of increasing wealth as storm severity. We have all kinds of stats on all kinds of ‘extreme weather’, but you won’t define and enumerate the events, which is the way to show if extreme event are increasing or decreasing over time. This is unscientific marketing – attempting to use disasters and people’s tendency to personalize them to show something is happening that isn’t happening. The weather is pretty much the same as it’s been since we started recording it.

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