> My UK-centric background makes me think of winter as bringing most wind > damage and flooding (although the latter isn't necessarily 1-1 with peak > rainfall). IIRC heavy snow collapsed several buildings in Europe no so > long ago - not that I'm saying it was due to climate change rather than > inadequate construction, but just pointing out that this is when damage > occurs.
That's my understanding as well. > I don't think anyone is really that concerned about preferences, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hedonic+climate+economics&hl=de&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=BVe&um=1&oi=scholart There's a lot of economic research dealing with exactly that, it's sometimes called the "amenity value" of climate. It gets measured via hedonic pricing, basically, the researchers try to control for factors other than climate in things like house prices, and then deduce how much say living on coasts with warm water is worth. I happen to think that this is an underappreciated area, and that the "amenity value" benefits of a warmer climate are much more important than say hurricane damage. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
