The Cost Of Disasters Is Increasing In 2022 (Forbes, July 13, 2022): “With eye-popping price tags on everything from housing to food to fuel, the 9.1% inflation rate already is increasing costs for American consumers. But there’s another reason for mounting prices—the huge bill for damages caused by the rise of extreme weather worsened by climate change.”
Weather disasters becoming more frequent and costly: UN (Al Jazeera, September 1, 2021): “The number of weather disasters – such as floods and heatwaves – driven by climate change has increased fivefold during the past 50 years, killing more than two million people and costing $3.64 trillion in total losses, a UN agency says.”
A disastrous ‘megaflood’ flood in sunny and dry California? It’s happened before (USA Today, August 13, 2022): “New research suggests climate change increases the likelihood of a massive California “megaflood,” akin to the Great Flood of 1862. That disaster, brought on by more than 40 days of constant rain, led to the death of 4,000.”
A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago (Arstechnica, April 7, 2022): ” The estimated magnitude 9.5 megathrust earthquake would have shoved parts of the coastline upward and triggered a tsunami 19 to 20 meters high along a huge stretch of the Chilean coast (and all the way across the Pacific in New Zealand, where geologists have also found deposits from a tsunami of about the same age).”
The Great Havana Hurricane of 1846: What if it Happened Today? (Washington Post, October 11, 2021): This article explains how the disaster that would be caused by the same event occurring today would result in at least $100 billion in damages and far reaching social and economic implications.
Earliest known war driven by climate change, researchers say (CNN, May 27, 2021): “There was evidence of very severe flooding of the Nile at this time. These changes were not gradual at all. They had to survive these changes that were brutal.”
