Hurricanes, floods, wildfires, 2021 brought more than its share of natural disasters. And as well as claiming around 10,000 lives, they also took a major financial toll. German reinsurer Munich Re says it was one of the most expensive years on record, with global damages estimated at around 280 billion dollars – only 120 billion dollars of which was insured. Hardest hit was the United States, which accounted for 150 billion dollars of the damages. It was struck by Hurricane Ida, disastrous tornadoes, an extremely cold winter in the south and wildfires in the west. In Europe, floods did the most damage. 54 billion dollars worth in total. Last year’s flooding in western Germany was the country’s most costly natural disaster on record. Meanwhile the Asia-Pacific region saw damages of 48 billion dollars, but a mere 8 billion of which was covered by insurance. So what made 2021 a remarkable year for natural disasters?
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Peace of mind and God's favor.
The reason it is the costliest is due to the increase cost of property that was in the way. IF a house was destroyed by a hurricane in 1950, the house would have cost about $25000. If the same size house was destroyed today, it would be about $250000. It is not the damage that is more extensive, but the cost of the house. Add to that, that no scientist has found any link to the frequency of hurricanes and co2.
There is no evidence that any disaster that happened in 2021 was due to co2.
If it is climate, which is doubtful, then it is the fact that we were in the first years of a Maunder Minimum period. During such periods, the Sun's magnetic field is reduced which allows more Gamma rays to reach earth. Gamma rays create more water vapor (clouds) and more water vapor creates more weather activity. Maunder Minimums are characterized by cooler temperatures and the last such period was characterized by what was then called "the year with no summer."
OK 280 billion dollars lost, but can we as well quantify how much humanity has devastated the same environment, and the catastrophe looming ahead?
We heading towards Armageddon
Because of Climate Changes in End Times the Desert will become Forest and the Forest will become Desert , Cold Areas will become Hot and Hot Areas will become Cold
Take a look at YouTube: The Global Crisis. Time for Truth. To what we have brought our planet, and we, after all, live on it.
That’s how USA bomb other countries. Awarded by Mother Nature
Of course it’s all a scam but clever me effective
It is a way to protect their insured assets from damage using taxation and more taxation’s to clean up their mess and pollution and more taxes to invest into their businesses for the green revolution lol the while keeping all profits and gains and holding the public liable and blaming the environment is world class excuse
It's always about deaths and costs and homes. Never about farming land that has been lost, leading to a fall in world food production of 14% in 2020!
One of the important questions Are people ready to unite? Why? Because with every day climate disasters will be strong. Now scientists say that now the second stage and it is named cycling. Every 12000 years our planet deal with global cataclysms. If we want to alive we must unite all our scientific potential as soon as possible or build the Ctreative Society.
Insurance calculates an estimate of cost, how much did they actually pay out. Crazy figures, Insurance companies.. Act of God, claim denied….Bit like VW emissions make it up as you go..
For centuries, there has always been storms and such, it just humans building in their paths. Example: Locate an empty lot and watch a rainfall soak into the Earth, then after a few years with improvements on top of that lot, you will note that it gets flooded due to poor drainage plans by asphalt, concrete, housing over land.
And this is one of the issues with climate change. It this keeps up and it is supposed to keep up, countries and people will no longer be able to rebuild. This will then concentrate more wealth in fewer hands.
IF DW wanted to be OBJECTIVE they would compare this number to the combined GDP values for same economies ! Just like i'm waiting for DW to explain why Germany needs Russia nat gas – Germany has all those windmills and solar farms ! The CO2 climate fraud marches on, wounded by revelations from CURRENT climate science ! Those hard greens deny what they cant explain !
Great context.everyone needs more than there salary to be financially stable.the best thing to do with your money is to invest it rightly.because money left for saving always end up used with no returns.i started investing in Bitcoin mid November 2020 with the help of a well-known- professional Mr Logan Willie and the profit entirely Business only
Buy more insurance? 🤦
Does this guy live on this planet or in la lar land?
When the terrain are plain, that means that is a flood area, no matter if the floods are each year or one time each century. If its flat, its floods land.
Floods are not just climate change reasons… If you build in flat lands, soon or later you will find out why they are so perfectly flat.
Out of disaster we had, only covid is a disaster that bring positive growth for economy. Thank god we still have covid till today.
Now imagine all the claims insurance companies denied but people genuinely needed because of their super niche requirements for claims. Please DW, insurance companies are the last to be pitied, they honestly don't deserve any sympathy.
Oh. What's this? A narrator with a British accent! How unique and refreshing. . . . . .
we'll face some more hard years and things will get worse more and more
The only issues is Insurance Companies !! Meanwhile at the end of the last ice age and the seas flooded nearly every land mass on Earth a greater mass of people and living habitats were devistated never to be seen again ..
Africa remain poor.
No insurance for the damage
2:40 "convective storms", "flash rains" or" bomb rains". G. Carlin describes as euphemism. Same as "shellshock" disease in WWI.
Welcome to catch '22 . This year just starting , it gonna get worse.
It may be the reason why some of carbon stored underground but now it has been digged and burned into the gaseous carbon covering the earth.
[Underground C] ⬇️: [Atmosphere C] ⬆️
2022 say: hold my beer…. just wait….
climate change is a myth. they are just defraud the insurance policy claims. there are far less starvation worldwide and people are living longer than anytime in human history. floods, earthquake, typhoon, heavy rains, and change of temperature varies yealy are not news, public education on how to consume less and help the ones who are really in need, the world and the environment will be much better. stop promoting cars, travels and the latest electronics gadgets will save hundreds of amazon forests and giga trillions toxics in the air ans water every years are way to go. i dont care if the car is disel or electric or hybrid, they are all polluted. you takes something and transforms into something, electric cars are no solution to the world envrionment degradation. it still takes energy and materials use to build, run and maintain the car. we, the consumers, are responsible to our envrionment with our behaviors.
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Thanks to our so called "leaders"!
Save Our Planet
In the long run it will cheaper to go much greener sooner than to pay for all the damage that climate change is going to cause.
it will only get worse the years to come.
Government policies in the last 2 years are probably the most damaging in history
This is all because of human action, they are silently killing the next generation. Very sad 😭