Climate disasters cost the U.S. $45 BILLION in damages last year.
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In US news and current events today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released their assessment of 2019’s major climate events in early January. Each of the 14 weather events exceeded $1B in damage. These disasters included the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, CA, flooding in the midwest, Hurricane Dorian, Tropical Storm Imelda, and tornadoes in Texas.
Overall, climate disasters cost the U.S. $45 billion in damages in 2019. These instances of extreme weather also resulted in the deaths of 44 people 2019 was the 5th consecutive year in which more than 10 billion-dollar disasters occurred. Between 2015 and 2019, extreme weather cost the U.S. more than $525 billion.
NOAA and NASA released a joint report on January 15 saying 2015-2019 were the warmest five years on record. The organizations started tracking the data in 1880 and say this data provides evidence of Earth’s rising temperatures.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says the rising temperatures are likely to lead to more weather disasters around the globe. Already in 2020, bushfires have ravaged the Australian continent, burning more than 15 million acres and covering more than 70% of the country in smoke. Scientists say warming can create dry conditions, which exacerbates droughts and raises the risk of wildfires. In California, residents have seen a fivefold increase in burned areas since 1972.
2019 was the warmest year on record for states for both Georgia and North Carolina while Florida, South Carolina, and Virginia each had their 2nd warmest year on record.
2019 was also the 2nd wettest year on record, with record rainfall in the Northern Plains, Great Lakes, and portions of the Central Plains. Heavy rainfall is one of many factors which increases potential for floods. In 2019, nearly half the total U.S. climate disaster costs, was due to flooding in Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi. The planet warming is caused in part by our reliance on fossil fuels, which puts excess carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The UN climate report has called for action, stating that carbon emissions must be 45% less than 2010 levels in order to avoid more catastrophic effects of the climate crisis.
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Trump: global warming is a hoax
Believe it or not
My fear is that global warming will cost us so much in remediation that we will no longer have the resources to implement the changes necessary to halt further global warming.
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Ocanic..
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Flooding in the Midwest never happened until 2017 – The Left
Appearentely natural disasters aren't supposed to happen according to nowthis.
Here we have nowthis mixing up climate and weather again. While climate is a reflection of weather, an accurate representation of climate is a period of weather over a long period of time, not a few years or one weather event. This is pure propaganda to pass liberal policy.
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