Helene zou de belastingsbetaler wellicht tot $250 miljard kosten. De Fed zal dat wel rap bijdrukken.
Door de klimaatverandering, ttz +1,3°C hogere luchttemperatuur, is het oceaanwater navenant warmer geworden, wat de krachtigere orkanen verklaart, en vooral de kans enorm verhoogt op zo een nieuwe recordorkaan (200 x hoger "zouden experten berekend hebben")
Maar waar men zich druk om maakt is dat de US-media daar helemaal niet meer van wakker ligt, integendeel het is een fait divers geworden...
Verwaarloosbare 3% van de media heeft het over Climate Change... in enkele jaren zal dat wellicht 0% worden.
Citaat:
https://electrek.co/2024/10/03/clima...-news-said-so/
Climate change made Helene 200x more likely – but just 3% of TV news said so
Jameson Dow | Oct 3 2024
Hurricane Helene has made its way through the southeast US as the strongest storm of the 2024 season and potentially the costliest storm ever recorded. But if you watch US media, you’d barely know that the true culprit behind Helene’s record-breaking strength is us – the climate change that we humans caused by burning fossil fuels.
Hurricane Helene spent the last week traveling through the Gulf of Mexico, eventually making landfall in Florida and leaving a swath of devastation as far north as Tennessee and North Carolina.
The storm was exceptional for its strength, but also for the high speed at which it traveled, reaching much farther inland than most storms.
In particular, one does not expect Asheville, North Carolina, over 400 miles from where Helene made landfall and nestled high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, to be vulnerable to hurricanes – and yet the “biblical devastation” seen there is readily apparent in photographs of the area, or in this story of a 7,000lb Rivian which was swept away (and yet, it still works).
And East Tennessee experienced a “1-in-5000 years rain event” according to a TVA spokesperson. (Thankfully, some people in the area have an electric car in the house to help keep the lights on by powering the house from their car.)
As of now, with 180 deaths (and counting) attributed to it, Helene is the second-deadliest hurricane to hit the US in 50 years (after Katrina), and early estimates of the amount of damage done range as high as $225-250 billion, according to AccuWeather – which would make it the most expensive hurricane to hit the US, ahead of Katrina and Harvey.
A comparison of nighttime lights before/after shows the storm track quite clearly.
Images from CSU/CIRA & NOAA.
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