Natural disaters in the US are they going up in # and severity Global warming ?

Question

Declared Disasters by Year or State
By Year: Year Number of Disaster Declarations
2007 35
2006 52
2005 48
2004 68
2003 56
2002 49
2001 45
2000 45
1999 50
1998 65
1997 44
1996 75
1995 32
1994 36
1993 32
1992 45
1991 43
1990 38
1989 31
1988 11
1987 23
1986 28
1985 27
1984 34
1983 21
1982 24
1981 15
1980 23
1979 42
1978 25
1977 22
1976 30
1975 38
1974 46
1973 46
1972 48
1971 17
1970 17
1969 29
1968 19
1967 11
1966 11
1965 25
1964 25
1963 20
1962 22
1961 12
1960 12
1959 7
1958 7
1957 16
1956 16
1955 18
1954 17
1953 13

Do you see a trend -Is it getting worse ?

Figures supplied by FEMA America's Federal Emergency Management Agency

http://www.fema.gov/news/disaster_totals_annual.fema

Texas 79
2 California 72
3 Florida 59
4 New York 54
5 Louisiana 53
6 Oklahoma 50
7 Alabama 46
8 Kentucky 45
9 Pennsylvania 42
10 Ohio 42
11 Mississippi 42
12 Illinois 41
13 Arkansas 41
14 West Virginia 40
15 Washington 40
16 Virginia 39
17 Missouri 39
18 Minnesota 39
19 Tennessee 38
20 Iowa 36
21 North Carolina 35
22 Kansas 35
23 North Dakota 33
24 Nebraska 33
25 Indiana 32
26 Georgia 31
27 Alaska 31
28 Wisconsin 30
29 Maine 30
30 South Dakota 27
31 Oregon 24
32 New Jersey 24
33 Michigan 24
34 Federated States of Micronesia 24
35 Vermont 23
36 Hawaii 22
37 Massachusetts 21
38 Puerto Rico 20
39 New Mexico 20
40 Idaho 20
41 Arizona 20
42 New Hampshire 19
43 Maryland 18
44 Montana 17
45 Nevada 16
46 South Carolina 15
47 Colorado 15
48 Northern Mariana Islands 14
49 US Virgin Islands 13

No timeline given just by State list incomplete due to lack of space see above link for entire list

Answer 1

But is this data normalized? "Declared disasters" are ultimately subjective - by which I mean that such declarations are ultimately political (i.e. process-defined) decisions that are highly correlated with population and population density, as well as to availability of Federal monies.

Answer 2

Check your own figures. Since 1996 was the worse year and the number is down ever since then. BTW disasters include earthquakes, large power outages and some other events that have NOTHING to do with global warming. So, like all global warming proponents you have demonstrated some changes in disasters that don't really correlate to global warming and have not shown the causality of the disasters.

Answer 3

looks pretty much cyclical to me! 7 in 59, 29 in 69, 42 in 79, 31 in 89, 50 in 99 - can't really say it's getting worse of better - just cyclical, but if you want to blame humans for it, by all means, please do so. Global warming is not man made, just the Earth, it's rotation and the effects of the sun! Granted, man may have an influence on it, but to blame us completely is a joke!

Answer 4

While global warming is certainly a concern, the list you gave simply means that the tracking and recording systems are improving. I would bet that the standard for what a natural disaster means has gone down.

Also: have you considered the possibility it might be god punishing us for allowing homosexuality to spread??...



Just kidding :)

Answer 5

How do you know what the average number is supposed to be? Your data only goes to 1953 a mere blink in over-all time. The same is true for average global temperature.
When will you chicken littles get it through your heads that
WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH DATA YET?

Answer 6

No.
It is because we now Label Everything bad that happens in Nature as a National Disaster.
(And besides, Disasters have nothing to do with Global Warming.....OR Global Cooling.)

Answer 7

Now, go to your favorite Global Warming website. ALL of them will say "Data prior to 1980 is based on assumption, and as such, is made by inferrence" , "However we will continue to use these assumptions in our modeling".
"Do not take these findings as all conclusive as there is not enough Scientific data to make an accurate interpretation".....

Answer 8

Does it ever occur to you that the government may be getting more liberal with what they declare a "National Disaster?"

At least that's how it seems to me.

Answer 9

Research the "little iceage" and be glad we don't have that many disasters. There were volcanoes, famine, drought, plague, whole civilizations died out.

Answer 10

i suppose you think its the republicans fault too.