Extreme weather is already expensive

Federal spending on disaster relief

The Center for American Progress released a report this week documenting the already high burden on the federal till of recent extreme weather. (Hat tip to The Washington Post for the pointer.) This is already working out to an average cost per household of about US$400 per year, for 2011-2013, and includes things like payments for crop insurance.

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See https://wordpress.com/view/667-per-cm.net/ Retired data scientist and statistician. Now working projects in quantitative ecology and, specifically, phenology of Bryophyta and technical methods for their study, notably Macrophotography. Some photos of mine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/198372469@N03/
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