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Re:A Record Number of Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Hit t... by eouw0o83hf on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:28AM (#38710400)
A billion dollars fixes less every year due to inflation. Wouldn't we expect this to be the case most years?
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Re:A Record Number of Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Hit t... by KeplerBoy on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:39AM (#38710555)
Not most years, but frequently.

An extraordinarily big catastrophe would probably hold the record for a few years until the next above average events happen.

Our problem seems to be that the underlying distribution shifts fast. What once was a catastrophic freak event, is now barely average.

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Re:A Record Number of Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Hit t... by jeffbee on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:39AM (#38710563)
It's in real dollars.
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