A Summary of Sandy Discussions

Here is a short guide to the various discussions of Sandy on this blog and from a few of my Tweets this week.

• Sandy damage estimates -- currently around $30B -- in the context of past storms, normalized to 2012 values.
• The entire time series of US normalized hurricane damage 1900-2012, including Sandy.
• An excellent talk from Chris Landsea, of the National Hurricane Center, on hurricanes and climate change from 25 Oct 2012 at the University of Colorado.
• An op-ed I had in the WSJ yesterday on disasters in context.
• Our 2008 paper on Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States:1900-2005 and underlying data.
• The ICAT Damage Estimator, which extends our 2008 paper and combines it with a set of really neat online graphing and analysis tools.
• Does it make sense to use energy policy to modulate future disasters? No. Here is some peer-reviewed analysis that makes the point quantitatively.

Thanks!