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Description1980- Cost of billion dollar hurricanes - US - variwide chart - NOAA data.svg
English: Variwide (variable-width) bar chart showing number of U.S. hurricanes, cost per hurricane, and total cost per decade, organized by decade starting in 1980
Suggested caption: The number of $1 billion Atlantic hurricanes almost doubled from the 1980s to the 2010s, and inflation-adjusted costs have increased more than elevenfold. The increases have been attributed to climate change and to greater numbers of people moving to coastal areas.
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Variwide (variable-width) bar chart showing number of U.S. hurricanes, cost per hurricane, and total cost per decade, organized by decade starting in 1980
Version 5: add green circles to emphasize total cost for each decade. . . optical illusion made the more-square 2000s look bigger than the tall thin 2010s . . . Putting circles with figures fights that optical illusion