Home Inspection & Climate Change

Of course I did. :roll_eyes:

I think it is interesting that we can look at the same data and come to very different conclusions. You see increasingly costly damage, I see the same damage, adjusted for inflation.
Add up 2020-2024 and compare to 2016-2019. Now adjust for inflation and it looks like the past four years have been less costly than the prior 4 years.

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Actually Bert, that chart should be CPI adjusted. Being that you’re an Engineer, I know that I don’t need to explain trend lines to you. :wink:

Here’s another one put out by NOAA that states right on the chart that it’s CPI adjusted, going back to 1980. They’ve also included a few trend lines. :grinning:

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That does make a huge difference. I didn’t know your chart was adjusted already.

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What does that prove? When more and more people build ever increasing expensive communities in severe weather areas the storm damage costs increase as well - that was hard to predict. Duh! With inflation more and more storms are billion dollar events and destroy more and more overcrowded communities. No shit. Does not in the least indicate climate change or global warming or whatever the Al Gore fan club is calling it now. It merely means every storm costs more!

I think you missed the part where the chart was adjusted for inflation. What that means is that the chart is showing you numbers that are "comparable " from one year to the next. "Adjusting for inflation " is commonly used when you want to see if there is a trend, but want to remove the inflation variable.

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You don’t read well. The chart isn’t adjusted for population density increase. More people, more building, means more damage, greater cost. Greater cost does not mean more or worse weather events.

Numbers don’t lie. They are just misrepresented by people who have a lie to tell.

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You would have to do a study to determine if the rate of growth is correlated to the dollar amount of damage. They may both be trending up, but at significantly different rates.

That said, I do agree that cost of damage is not the best indicator for climate change.

Is climate change the argument? I will bet hard dollars it is changing.

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I agree to an extent, the dollars part of it is in relation to not only what it cost the US taxpayer every time a catastrophic weather event happens, but also what it does to our homeowners insurance rates.

Both effects all of us one way or another and are a result of climate change.
Of course, then there are those who lose everything due to the ever-increasing number, strength, and destruction of storms, and as past predictions continue to prove to be correct, it’s easy to see that if future predictions are correct, that it’s only going to get worse, and possibly much worse.

scientist predict future climate change to be worse - Google Search

According to current scientific predictions, future climate change is likely to be significantly worse than what we’ve experienced so far, with most scientists expecting increasing global temperatures, more extreme weather events like heatwaves, floods, and droughts, rising sea levels, and disruptions to ecosystems, especially if greenhouse gas emissions continue at current rates.

Key points about future climate change predictions:

  • Temperature increase:

Scientists predict a substantial rise in global average temperatures, potentially surpassing 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, leading to more severe impacts.

  • Extreme weather events:

Increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires, and heavy precipitation are expected.

  • Sea level rise:

Continued melting of glaciers and ice sheets will contribute to significant sea level rise, impacting coastal communities.

  • Ecological disruption:

Climate change is likely to disrupt ecosystems significantly, causing species migration and potential extinction events.

  • Regional variations:

Some regions will experience more severe impacts than others depending on geography and climate patterns.

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Same failed predicions all predicated by a failed climate model supported by scientists who make their living (grants) off this stuff. Going back to 1970 the world has ENDED multiple times! Chicken Little all over again!

It’s going to get hot out there, make that hotter.

No surprise there.

Nope… considering California has had a massive ‘campfire’ raging for most of it.
(I wonder how many Carbon Credits they owe us for it)!!

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