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- Title
Clarifying the Attribution of Recent Disaster Losses: A Response to Epstein and McCarthy.
- Authors
Pielke Jr., Roger A.; Agrawala, Shardul; Bouwer, Laurens M.; Burton, Ian; Changnon, Stanley; Glantz, Michael H.; Hooke, William H.; Klein, Richard J. T.; Kunkel, Kenneth; Mileti, Dennis; Sarewitz, Daniel; Thompkins, Emma L.; Stehr, Nico; von Storch, Hans
- Abstract
This paper comments on the article about the awareness of the risks of an abrupt change in climate related to human influences on the climate system. Specifically, it identifies the growth in economic damages associated with weather and climate events in the United States, as evidence of trends in extreme events, arguing the rising costs associated with weather volatility provide another derived indicator of the state of the climate system. The rising costs of disasters are important, and so too is human influence on climate. Research on the societal dimensions of disasters shows that over recent decades the impacts of disasters on society do show an increase, whether measured by economics.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CLIMATE change; WEATHER; DISASTERS; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2005, Vol 86, Issue 10, p1481
- ISSN
0003-0007
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/BAMS-86-10-1481