NOAA http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/ Found here are the weather/climate events that have had the greatest economic impact from 1980 to 2012. The U.S. has sustained 144 weather/climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2013). The total cost of these 144 events exceeds $1 trillion. [H/T: Full Text Reports]
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The Impact of Climate Change and Population Growth on the National Flood Insurance Program through 2100
Prepared by Michael Baker Jr., Inc. | Deloitte Consulting, LLP and AECOM for the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency http://bit.ly/12LzMGo The study finds that over the next 90 years, there will likely be (50-percent chance) a significant increase in coastal and riverine flooding in our nation, which will have a … Continue reading »
Oil Sands Extraction Waste Poses Risk to Canada’s Mackenzie River Basin
Rosenberg International Forum: The Mackenzie River Basin Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy http://rosenberg.ucanr.org/ [AirWaterLand.ca] “The ever-present potential for structural failure of the tailing ponds will pose risks, both large and growing, of environmental catastrophe” in the Mackenzie River Basin, according to a report of the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy. “There is concern … Continue reading »
Ecosystems and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Context of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations Univ. (Report to the Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund) via International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) / Edited by Fabrice Renaud and Radhika Murti http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2013-005.pdf [PEN-e posting] Recently, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), “the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization,” released its, Ecosystems and … Continue reading »
The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2013
U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) http://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/gar/2013/en/home/index.html [From Press Release] The relationship between business investment practices and disaster risk is poorly understood. The 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR13)‘From Shared Risk to Shared Value: The Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction’ seeks to fill that gap. It explores why increasing disaster … Continue reading »
The Efficacy of Hazardous Fuel Treatments: A Rapid Assessment of the Economic and Ecologic Consequences of Alternative Hazardous Fuel Treatments
Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona Univ. http://library.eri.nau.edu/gsdl/collect/erilibra/index/assoc/D2013004.dir/doc.pdf [From an E&E News PM article by Phil Taylor, sub. req'd] The federal government must spend more to thin overstocked backcountry forests if it hopes to protect ecosystems and reduce the cost of wildfire suppression, according to a new study commissioned by the Interior Department. The study led … Continue reading »
California Bay-Delta Conservation Plan: Final Chapters of Draft Plan Include Cost-Benefit Analysis
California Natural Resources Agency http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/BDCPPlanningProcess/KeyAnnouncements.aspx [From Press Release] The BDCP is a proposal to provide long-term restoration and protection of fish and wildlife in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta while creating a more reliable means to supply water to 25 million Californians and over 3 million acres of farmland. Information made available today includes cost estimates … Continue reading »
Tornadoes and Thunderstorms: The 2012 and 2013 Tornado Season
Insurance Information Institute http://www.iii.org/facts_statistics/tornadoes-and-thunderstorms.html The devastating tornadoes which hit Oklahoma this May bring to the mind a powerful string of tornadoes that hit Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Georgia and 13 other states in 1999. Those tornadoes resulted in $1.5 billion in insured losses ($2.0 billion in 2012 dollars) in all the affected states, according to ISO. … Continue reading »
2012 Risk Assessment for Potentially Polluting Wrecks in U.S. Waters
US NOAA http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20130520_shipwrecks.html [From Press Release] NOAA presented to the U.S. Coast Guard today a new report that finds that 36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.S. seafloor could pose an oil pollution threat to the nation’s coastal marine resources. Of those, 17 were recommended for further assessment and potential removal of both fuel oil and … Continue reading »
Who Pays for Climate Change? U.S. Taxpayers Outspend Private Insurers Three-to-One to Cover Climate Disruption Costs
Natural Resources Defense Council / by Daniel Lashof and Andy Stevenson http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/files/taxpayer-climate-costs-IP.pdf [From Press Release] U.S. taxpayers paid nearly $100 billion responding to damages caused by last year’s extreme weather events associated with climate change, about $1,100 per taxpayer, according to an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council released today. By paying nearly $100 … Continue reading »
