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year of weather disasters.
While former statistics showed that the total destruction of a house was unlikely, recent statistical
data of weather disasters and its devastating results demonstrates quite another picture.
In 2012 alone, the
cost of weather disasters exceeded $ 110 billion in the United States, and climate change will only increase the frequency and intensity of these events.
Greater final scores indicated that an area is more ideal for first time homebuyers, offering a better home value relative to taxes and income, greater chance of success with mortgage payments, lower risk of crime, lower
risk of weather disaster, lower cost of entertainment, and lower cost of living.
Many of the failed harvests of the past decade were a
consequence of weather disasters, like floods in the United States, drought in Australia and blistering heat waves in Europe and Russia.
It and other oil - producing nations have, among other things, claimed a need for adaptation funding — normally reserved for the poor nations that have done little to cause climate change but are bearing the
brunt of weather disasters and other problems — because of rising sea levels that threaten offshore oil rigs.
Hoppe, however, says that even if we adjust for population spread and increased property values, Munich Re still says there were significant increases in the costs
of weather disasters over the past few years.
This evidence has taken on a new meaning in this
summer of weather disasters, especially the floods in Pakistan and the heat wave in Russia.
«Never in my 30 years as a meteorologist have I witnessed a year like 2010 — the astonishing
number of weather disasters and unprecedented wild swings in Earth's atmospheric circulation were like nothing I've seen,» he writes.