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user-inactivated · 4293 days ago · link · · parent · post: Super Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines death toll soars.
It's a documented fact that climate change increases the extremes (both directions) in weather. But the two deadliest hurricanes in US history happened in 1908 and (I think) 1922. Of course, we have infrastructure to deal with this stuff in the US now. But on the flip side we're more likely to be cognizant of disasters in the Philippines than we were in 1900. Krakatoa famously netted one little 'ticker' line in British papers when it erupted in 1883 -- and that's as big as a natural disaster can really get.