Talk:List of disasters by cost

Chernobyl disaster
Where is the reference for the 39000 dead in the Chernobyl section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.131.179.248 (talk) 13:37, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned references in List of disasters by cost
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Disease outbreaks
Should this article include disease outbreaks? Those are very costly. For example, SARS-Cov-2 as of 6th, Feb 2020 is estimated to be already the costliest outbreak at over $62 billion: https://www.hpnonline.com/infection-prevention/crisis-planning-outbreak-response/article/21124499/coronavirus-becomes-worlds-costliest-epidemic-at-over-62-billion — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.235.176.232 (talk) 22:10, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Economic impacts of large disease outbreaks are exceedingly difficult to effectively quantify, even by the already troublesome standards of hurricanes and droughts. But assuming proper references are made, epidemics and pandemics would seem to meet the qualifications. They are already specifically listed in Template:Disasters, so that's good enough for me. Qwertygiy (talk) 23:44, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't think it should be included 2001:BB6:3163:1200:7179:E98E:7ADC:2DCC (talk) 22:07, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

1998 Montreal Ice Storm not listed
Some estimate up to 5 billion in damage 66.131.202.46 (talk) 17:04, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Chernobyl Disaster Is Not $2T when adjusted for inflation
The $700B figure is from a research paper calculating 30 year impact (1986-2016). So it's unfair to adjust from 1986 to 2023/4. Instead, the figure should be around 900B to adjust from 700B in 2016. 24.191.7.123 (talk) 21:00, 2 June 2024 (UTC)