Posted by
Average Voter on Friday, February 29, 2008 7:15:14 PM
“We found that although some decades were quieter and less damaging in the U.S. and others had more land-falling hurricanes and more damage, the economic costs of land-falling hurricanes have steadily increased over time,” said Chris Landsea, one of the researchers as well as the science and operations officer at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami. “There is nothing in the U.S. hurricane damage record that indicates global warming has caused a significant increase in destruction along our coasts.”
Nothing like making note of the obvious. Yet, it would seem there is even more to this then what they have said in this study.
For instance, how about the fact that we had levee's off the coast of New Orleans that we knew could not handle a catagory five hurricane, and those same levee's where supposed to keep the water back from a city that is nine feet below sea level. How about that for obvious! Or how about the simple fact that things cost a lot more today. The same amount of damage today as thirty years ago has an economic impact three to four times as great.
We keep building fancier resorts and bigger homes along the coast line and yet we should all feel sorry for the bozo's who lose their home to a hurricane. Granted, it is sad, but I simply can't find it in me to have a lot of simpathy for them when you live in a hurricane zone.