Tag: Hurricane Katrina

What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?

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,… http://flip.it/SKXvC Related articles What If We … Continue reading What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?

Do natural disasters redistribute wealth?

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… http://flpbd.it/NBBoL Related articles A History of Disaster Capitalism (motherjones.com) How capitalism … Continue reading Do natural disasters redistribute wealth?