{"id":4989,"date":"2013-07-19T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T03:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4989"},"modified":"2013-07-19T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T03:44:24","slug":"flood-insurance-needs-fixing-thanks-to-climate-change-time-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4989","title":{"rendered":"Flood Insurance Needs Fixing Thanks to Climate Change | TIME.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hurricane Sandy cost the U.S. some $70 billion in direct damages and lost economic output. This is, obviously, a lot of money \u2014 Sandy was the second most expensive hurricane in U.S. history after a small tropical storm called Katrina. Much of that cost was borne by the government \u2014 local, state and federal \u2014 and some of it was absorbed by those of us who lived in the storm\u2019s path. But about $20 billion to $25 billion of the damage from the storm was eventually covered by the insurance industry.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/science.time.com\/2013\/07\/17\/the-costs-of-climate-change-and-extreme-weather-are-passing-the-high-water-mark\/\">Flood Insurance Needs Fixing Thanks to Climate Change | TIME.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hurricane Sandy cost the U.S. some $70 billion in direct damages and lost economic output. This is, obviously, a lot of money \u2014 Sandy was the second most expensive hurricane in U.S. history after a small tropical storm called Katrina. Much of that cost was borne by the government \u2014 local, state and federal \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}