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What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?

September 3, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?
fastcoexist.com

We give hurricanes such friendly, blameless names. What did Sandy ever do to anyone? An advocacy group wants to name disastrous storms after the politicians who are blocking effective climate policy.

Spare a thought for people named Ivan,…

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What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers? (fastcoexist.com)
Climate Name Change aims to connect deniers to storms (treehugger.com)

Do natural disasters redistribute wealth?

November 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

NYC Crime Rate Drops After Storm
thedailybeast.com

HURRICANE SANDY

Hurricane Sandy may have devastated areas of New York City, but there was one silver lining in the otherwise massively destructive storm cloud: the city’s overall crime rate dropped 27 percent compared with the sam…

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A History of Disaster Capitalism (motherjones.com)
How capitalism stacks the deck on disaster (grist.org)
Biggest summer storms in 50 years hit Chiang Rai, Thailand (disaster-report.com)
How Sandy Has Altered Data Center Disaster Planning (datacenterknowledge.com)