Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The definition of climate harm includes burst water pipes, no doubt caused by global warming induced severe cold.
‘Climate change catastrophes’ affected 1 in 10 American homes in 2021
Ben Adler·Senior Climate EditorWed, 23 February 2022, 5:54 am
Natural disasters related to climate change that each caused more than $1 billion in damage harmed roughly 1 out of every 10 homes in the United States last year, according to a new report from the property research organization CoreLogic. In total, the 20 “climate change catastrophes” hit 14.5 million homes and caused nearly $57 billion worth of property damage.
This is even costing homeowners whose houses haven’t yet been affected, as insurance premiums rise to cover likely future losses. “From 2017 to 2020, the total written premium in the state of California for dwelling fire and homeowners’ insurance combined has increased by more than 27 percent, from $8.7 [billion] to $11.1 billion,” CoreLogic said.
The greatest number of homes were harmed by the winter storms in 2021 that battered a swath of the Midwest and South, most famously causing a long blackout in Texas. More than 12.7 million homes were affected, causing over $15 billion in property damage from problems such as flooding and burst pipes.
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I have got to admit, I suffered a climate catastrophe earlier this month. My swimming pool overflowed because of all the rain, and now I’ll have to buy a $6 bag of pool salt, to maintain chlorine levels. I should demand compensation from the government.
Can you think of any climate catastrophes you have suffered, which should be added to the list?
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I think the world is in a climate crisis right now, centered in the Ukraine. If oil was $40-$50/barrel, if Germany hadn’t tied themselves to Russian natural gas and shut down all their nuclear power plants, if Europe had worked to develop their own natural gas reserves, such as they are, then Vladimir Putin would not have had the cash to support the military equipment and supplies to invade the Ukraine.
Why did all these things happen? Green climate policies. The current US administration has reduced US oil output, making the US dependent on oil imports again. They have reduced natural gas drilling and pipeline, and added regulations, leaving less natural gas available for US export to Europe. Europe is pursuing the holy grail of “Net Zero”, and found they need natural gas today to keep the lights on, meaning they can’t protest too hard against Russia.
Climate IS the most pressing existential threat today, but not because the world will burn up or drown in floods and rising seas. The threat is that green policies have made the western world democracies vulnerable – to Russian fuel supplies in the near term and to Chinese monopolies on rare earths and other metals needed to create a supposedly CO2-free economy.
The democracies of the west approach to Russia and China in the future might be “Please Sir, may I have some more?”
Excellent comment, George.
If Biden were smart, he would announce today that the U.S. is going all out to develop all its fossil fuel assets with the aim of lowering the price of energy and taking money out of Putin’s pocket which would make him less able to finance murdering innocent people.
Unfortunately, Biden isn’t smart.
He is a Democrat. So he isn’t smart. But he is a liar, by definition.
Also few people recognize Putin’s real motive to put a puppet regime in Kyiv, so that Moscow can direct Ukrainian economic output.
Some facts:
Famine and food scarcity have long haunted Russia.
‘Ukraine is called The Bread basket of Europe for a reason.
Unaffordable energy is already driving up the cost of grain harvests and will substantially worsen under much higher fertilizer and farm machinery fuel costs, both due to the West’s War on Fossil Fuels.
Putin wants control of Ukraine’s agricultural output, to direct it to Russia when the global famine hits.
Putin seems to be meeting some resistance in Ukraine.
Millions of Ukrainians are now in fear for the lives due to Europe’s pursuit of climate policy though.
Freezing rain meant I had to cancel an appointment because of poor driving conditions. On top of that, the sidewalks were too icy for walking, so I spent the day sitting on my butt, thus inviting a climate-induced heart attack.
I was frightened by windmill blade transport caravans on the interstate highway.
They actually cited an outbreak of bitterly cold weather in Texas as evidence of a global warming catastrophes. It doesn’t get any dumber than that. It’s another reason how you can be certain Climate Change is pseudoscience.
Notice how they spin it though: “Natural disasters related to climate change”. How long before they will “relate” the war in Ukraine to “climate change”?
Just add it to the long and contradictory list of things “caused” by [catastrophic man-made] climate change
How long before they will “relate” the war in Ukraine to “climate change”?
They haven’t already?
Nonsense.
Proof that when opinionated people are assigned “climate”, then everything appears to be climate, to the ignorant.
They need to learn exactly what is “climate” versus ordinary and quite common weather.
I think a couple. I lost power because a tree fell in a forest.
Towards the end of the summer, I had to water the plants in the flower garden. I only have to do that about every third or fourth year.
I think everyone is overlooking the catastrophic Russian attack on Ukraine which is a clear result of Climate Change caused by the US, Europe and Australia burning fossil fuels. Chinese, Indian and Russian fossil fuel CO2 is benign since they plan on stopping increasing their use in 20-30 years. Nothing bad ever happened when CO2 levels were under 350 ppm.
In a way your sarcasm is true. Europe becoming dependent on burning Russian fossil fuels at today’s prices floods the russian treasury with hard currency. That is the hard currency from fossil fuels supplied to Europe that Moscow needs to fund its military aggression.
Make pattern baldness.
That’s it.
More like a 90% chance you suffered a climate catastrophe last year. Your energy prices went up dramatically, all in the name of tilting at the mythical “existential threat” of “climate change”. It’s a human-caused tragedy that can easily be fixed. Just stop. Stop, take a deep breath, look around you and drink in beautiful reality: modest sea level rise and a return to the slightly warmer and vastly more beneficial temperatures after the Little Ice Age.
Well, if we’re going there
My private road washed out at the creek due to snow and rain, and I had to have it dug out and rebuilt. Where do I submit for $13000 reimbursement?
Zillow reported last month that the value of US housing stocks went up 7 trillion USD last year to $43tt at the end of 2021. Corelogic reports that $57 bb of this was lost to climate change affecting 1 out of every 10 American homes.
Hmmm…on a valuation basis that works out to a loss of 0.13%. Meanwhile home values increased by 19.44%. Wow, this would have been at least 19.57% but for climate change! Which of course points out the absurdly small impact of Corelocgic’s climate loss claim. Market factors, up or down, dwarf climate as a driver of US home values.
Also consider that Corelogic’s claim of 14.5 homes sustaining climate loss includes 12.7 million from a very ordinary winter storm. Toss that entirely, as the only basis to include those homes in a global warming loss total is that much of the damage was caused by green mandated electrical compression pumps and field equipment, which of course failed when the wind stopped, the panels snowed over and gas stopped flowing. I could make that argument in a case against the green movement for acheiving an idiotic mandate, but not in claiming the losses were due to global warming.
So the real global warming loss, using adjusted Corelogic numbers, is 1.8 million homes damaged by “human caused global warming” (I’m not going to bother debating this claim, let ’em have it) and the total loss was about $7.1 BB. That works out to a loss of 0.0163%.
Now don’t get me started on Corelogic’s role in the Great Recession, and how the MBS industry built a shaky empire largely buttressed by automated valuation models….
“Hmmm…on a valuation basis that works out to a loss of 0.13%. Meanwhile home values increased by 19.44%. Wow, this would have been at least 19.57% but for climate change!”
That’s funny! Thanks for bringing reality into the discussion.
The paint on my deck is starting to peel.
> Can you think of any climate catastrophes you have suffered, which should be added to the list?
I’m paying $5/gal because of our climate policy catastrophe.
We should bull doze down the himalayas and use the material to fill in the bearing straight. Now that might actually create some man made climate change.
The hinterlands of Russia would get much needed moisture and warmth from the regions south of the himalayas.
Filling in the bearing straight would just be cool. You could drive from Miami to Milan.
What is a “Senior Climate Editor” and why does Yahoo News need one?
Our city of 60,000 has a full time “Climate Change Coordinator” with office and staff. All they do is issue press releases and maintain a list of solar panel installers. They also tell you to turn your thermostat down. Yearly, they receive awards at banquet dinners for the wonderful and important work they do.
“Our city of 60,000 has a full time “Climate Change Coordinator” with office and staff.”
Yes, there’s money in that climate change business.
I wonder if my town has a Climate Change Coordinator? Maybe not. I don’t recall any press releases about climate change being released around here.
Hey, I could put out press releases! Maybe I should apply for the job if they don’t have a coordinator here.
On second thought, they probably wouldn’t appreciate my press releases. Things like: “Nothing to see here.”
I got sunburned during the mega-long hot summer in the UK. Mind you that was in 1976! Does it count?
I couldn’t make it to the ski slopes recently because the road was closed due to heavy snow.
I lost out on several days of skiing because it was too cold.
I am continually suffering a climate catastrophe aggravation from listening to all the warmunists telling Me that the sky is falling when my lying eyes tell me it’s not.
Catastrophe:
“a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin”
A typical example given in the definition (Merriam Webster) is a Super Nova.
It has been a long time since I have been subjected to a Climate Catastrophe.
Early last winter the auger belt on my snow blower broke while removing some global warming from my driveway.
It’s an old Craftsman. They don’t make it anymore. (Made by MTD for Craftsman.) Part numbers have changed. Took the rest of the winter plus to find a belt that was supposed to work. The manual and, of course YouTube videos, said how to change it. Useless.
I finally got it in a way none the instructions described. No catastrophes this winter.
Natural disasters related to
climate changeweather that each caused more than $1 billion in damage harmed roughly 1 out of every 10 homes in the United States last year,“Death from climate change disaster” – Freezing to death in your Tesla while pulling a U-Haul moving from Florida to Ottawa.