Comments on: Climate Change and Disaster Losses Workshop Report http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3968 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Lab Lemming http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3968&cpage=1#comment-6250 Lab Lemming Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:07:35 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3968#comment-6250 Well, down under, drought and climate change have been front page news all week, ever since the wheat forcast was updated to be the worst since either '02 or '82. The main fallout has been a flurry of finger-pointing, since currenty all the states are run by the labor party, which is in opposition Federally. Any news outlet should give plenty of stories, but here is a good starting point: See http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20578433-601,00.html and associated links for starters. From the economics POV, though, one of the hard things to quantify is the fact that crop failures increase prices, so the $ value of the crop is not linearly correlated with the size of the harvest... Well, down under, drought and climate change have been front page news all week, ever since the wheat forcast was updated to be the worst since either ‘02 or ‘82. The main fallout has been a flurry of finger-pointing, since currenty all the states are run by the labor party, which is in opposition Federally.

Any news outlet should give plenty of stories, but here is a good starting point:
See http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20578433-601,00.html
and associated links for starters.

From the economics POV, though, one of the hard things to quantify is the fact that crop failures increase prices, so the $ value of the crop is not linearly correlated with the size of the harvest…

]]> By: Roger Pielke, Jr. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3968&cpage=1#comment-6249 Roger Pielke, Jr. Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:32:35 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3968#comment-6249 LL- Thanks. We focused on storms and floods because these are responsible for the vast majority of losses world wide. That being said, drought does have large impacts which are almost without excpetion very poorly documented and quantified. We have discussed perhaps focusing on drought in a follow-up workshop. I note the following paper is relevant to this subject: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL025711.shtml LL- Thanks. We focused on storms and floods because these are responsible for the vast majority of losses world wide. That being said, drought does have large impacts which are almost without excpetion very poorly documented and quantified. We have discussed perhaps focusing on drought in a follow-up workshop. I note the following paper is relevant to this subject:

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL025711.shtml

]]> By: Lab Lemming http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3968&cpage=1#comment-6248 Lab Lemming Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:50:56 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3968#comment-6248 Read the summary. I didn't see any mention of drought among the various disasters discussed. Is this because the damages are negligible compared to wind/rain events, or for some other reason? Read the summary. I didn’t see any mention of drought among the various disasters discussed. Is this because the damages are negligible compared to wind/rain events, or for some other reason?

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