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Scrapped by Trump, revived US climate-disaster database reveals record losses

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨throws_lemy@lemmy.nz⁩ to ⁨earthscience@mander.xyz⁩

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251022-scrapped-by-trump-revived-us-climate-disaster-database-reveals-record-losses

the climate-disaster database : climatecentral.org/…/billion-dollar-disasters-oct…

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Congressional Democrats have also sought to restore the program within NOAA, introducing a bill last month that has yet to advance.

    I’m not hopeful but at least they’re trying.

    This year in a nutshell:

    The new findings, he said, show that “the year started out with a bang”: the Los Angeles wildfires were likely the costliest in history, with insured losses reaching an estimated $60 billion.

    That was followed by a barrage of spring storms across the central and southern United States, including several destructive tornadoes.

    Altogether, 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters between January and June caused $101.4 billion in inflation-adjusted damages – though 2025 as a whole may fall short of a record, thanks to a milder-than-usual Atlantic hurricane season.

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