Australia Counts Cost Of Cyclone Damage

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According to Jeff Masters, Larry was a Cat-3 on the Saffir Simpson scale. Australia uses a scale based on peak gusts, not sustained wind. Larry was still the most powerful cyclone to make landfall on the east coast, in at least 30 years.

Australia was on Tuesday counting the cost of the devastation caused by Cyclone Larry in northeastern Queensland, with estimates ranging up to a billion dollars (750 million US). The Australian Banana Growers Council said the storm which swept through the country's biggest banana-growing region destroyed more than 200,000 tonnes of fruit worth 300 million dollars.

The council's chief executive Tony Heidrich said the bulk of the industry's production would be in ruins for about a year and that the bill for infrastructure damage would also be high.

Up to 4,000 workers on Queensland's banana plantations, which produce 95 percent of the country's crop, could lose their jobs, industry officials said.

The main sugar farmers' organisation, Canegrowers, said sugar cane worth 200 million dollars had been destroyed -- about 10 percent of the country's production for the season.

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Australia_Counts_Cost_Of_Cyclone_Damage.html

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2. Repeat this scenario every 5 years

Repeat this scenario every 5 years, instead of every 30 years, and you'll get a glimpse of our global economic health under extreme climate change.

Approximately 4 years out of 5 for agricultural productivity, and continual replacement of infrastucture.

Repeat until the farmers go out of business and the provinces abandon entire coastal towns, letting them fall into ruins with each pounding.

Now repeat across the globe....