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Priscilla King's avatar

Hurricanes are increasing in destructiveness to humans and property because more people are building and storing more in hurricane-prone places.

According to measurements of things that can really be compared like wind speed, wave height, distance moved inland, etc., we had big, bad hurricanes 150 years ago.

It's been a while since I saw someone's list of the ten worst hurricanes/cyclones/storms-of-tropical-origin in US history, based on meteorological factors rather than human activity. I know the link I followed to the list has been broken; don't know whether the list is still there. With that caveat, as best I recall, the Johnstown Flood (1880s iirc) was #1. I forget whether even Katrina squeaked into the #10 position or was down below the list. Camille, Hugo, the other human-named hurricanes we remember weren't even close. Ian wouldn't be either.

So...assuming any validity for the meteorological measurements, hurricanes' impact on humankind IS based on human behavior, and IS increasing, but not in a way that fits into any of the best known models of climate change.

(I'm a skeptic, so I get mistaken for a climate change denier. I'm not. I see the biggest barrier to awareness of real, verifiable, local climate change being that people have been polarized about politicized theoretical models of global climate change. If I say to people, "Do you realize downtown Kingsport was 21 degrees hotter than my house is now, and the drive back took less than half an hour? What do you think that means?" they'll say "It means you've been spending too much time on the Internet reading left-wing rubbish about global warming! Don't you know that's only an excuse to destroy our country!" We have to look for the facts, which mostly lie in between the extremes.)

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Tammy Thompson's avatar

MAYBE Y'ALL COULD POST & SHARE FROM EPA SITE TO ALL THE PEOPLE TO SEE & SHARE PLEASE?

October is Children's Health Monthhttps://www.epa.gov › sites › files › documents

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October is. Children's Health. Month. How many tips can you follow in 31 days? 1 Get Your Child ... EPA's Carbon Emissions Calculator at www.epa.gov/. https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-09/documents/chm_2011_poster_v3_nocrops.pdf

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