Nu finns det bättre verktyg för att koppla extrema väder till klimatförändringarna. Detta används nu för att studera kostnaderna för dessa katastrofer.
Orkanen Harvey orsakade skador för 90 miljarder dollar. De nya beräkningarna visar att 67 miljarder av dessa berodde på klimatförändringarna.
Tyvärr funkar inte länken till den första studien som nämns.
Climate crisis to blame for $67bn of Hurricane Harvey damage – study
At least $67bn of the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 can be attributed directly to climate breakdown, according to research that could lead to a radical reassessment of the costs of damage from extreme weather.
Harvey ripped through the Caribbean and the US states of Texas and Louisiana, causing at least $90bn of damage to property and livelihoods, and killing scores of people.
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In a study published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers used the emerging science of climate change attribution to calculate the odds of such a hurricane happening naturally or under increased carbon dioxide levels, and applied the results to the damage caused.
Similar methods were used in a separate study, published last month in the same journal, that found that droughts in New Zealand between 2007 and 2017 cost the economy about NZ$4.8bn, of which $800m was directly linked to climate change. Floods caused insured losses of about NZ$470m over the same period, of which NZ$140m was linked to the climate.
The researchers say the new tools are a more accurate way of estimating the economic damage caused by climate breakdown.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-67bn-of-hurricane-harvey-damage-study
Climate change attribution and the economic costs of extreme weather events: a study on damages from extreme rainfall and drought
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-020-02729-y