Political scientist Roger Pielke Jr. is right when he says that one reason we now spend more on disasters than we did in the past is that we are wealthier than we were in the past. But he's wrong in claiming that climate change has nothing to do with the increased cost. Physicist and climate scientist John P. Abraham explains a couple key flaws in Pielke's argument at The Huffington Post.
Wealth and climate change are increasing the cost of disaster cleanup
A Carl Sagan documentary is coming from Nat Geo & Seth MacFarlane
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Mammoth meatballs grown from ancient genetic information
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Awe makes for kind and generous kids, study shows
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Store your special memories and important files securely with 200GB of Amaryllo Cloud Storage
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This 3-in-1 USB-C charging cable can charge your Apple device simultaneously for only $18
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