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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='color:black'> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> on behalf of spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br></span><b>…</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsoplaintext> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsoplaintext>>>…Notice something interesting: politicians are using this storm as proof that global warming is causing increasing amounts of damage from storms. But just the opposite is true. 2022 is still a lower than average storm year…spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] ian came home<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>>…<span style='color:black'>The increased damage is indeed caused by there being more people in affected areas rather than because storms are worse. As you noted, they are not. One factor to keep in mind: More people are in harm's way because the government uses our tax dollars to subsidize flood insurance</span>… Max<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja. If you ask yanks what was the worst storm of 2022, they will answer in unison IAN! But Fiona was a waaaaay bigger storm, half again more energy. Most people never heard of it because it didn’t cause much damage. The biggest known storms are nothingburgers if they never encounter land. We can imagine dolphins jumping out of the water into 160 mph winds and wondering whaaaaat in the heeeellllll just happened, but nobody cares about them. We are deplorably homocentric! We should care about confused dolphins.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But Max is right. We are creating a grand illusion with our insurance policies and FEMA.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=xmsoplaintext><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>