Country has experienced 23 extreme weather events costing $1bn or more already this year, passing previous mark of 22 in 2020
With four months of 2023 still left, the US has set a record for the most natural disasters in a single year that have cost $1bn or more, as fires, floods and ferocious winds were among deadly events experts warn are being turbo-charged by the climate crisis.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) announced on Monday that there have already been 23 extreme weather events in the US this year that have cost at least $1bn. The current figure surpasses the record of 22 such events set in 2020.
So far, the total cost of disasters in 2023 is more than $57.6bn, according to Noaa.
… so far
No surprise 2020 was the previous record with how active that Atlantic tropical storm season was. Guessing 2005 is up there on the list too.
I would love to see people and local governments affected by some of these events to bring litigation against the oil and gas industry for covering up the dangers of their products.
As long as we let them privatize the profits while leaving the public with the costs, nothing will change.
good, we wont change our ways until we suffer tremendously
But wait, there’s more!
As an American, all I can do is hope my peers finally pull their heads out of their collective asses and fucking do something.
Looking around, I sadly do not expect it to happen. People are still saying global warming is a “woke” conspiracy of lies.
Part of our own government is actively trying to destroy the efforts of the Biden administration to get us off fossil fuels, or regulate anything.
Sadly, I think it is too late for us. Gods help us.
In the words of am ex coworker, “I just Believe some years after hour than others,”. The problem is that instead of using logic they go with feelings until it’s convenient for them.
Problem is, even if the U$ gets our shit together (which would be great), we’re still fucked because of China, India, Russia etc.
Apathy doesn’t work. Something is always better than nothing. Show an effort, develop green tech and then collaborate with other countries.
Sorry, Republicans control the House. Maybe next year. 🤷
Not with the way the srate Republicans changed their voting laws and districts. It is going to be depressing
You’d think the hottest day record being broken daily for what, a week back to back, would kick our asses into gear. Instead most people barely acknowledged it.
Most news outlets are too busy blasting the modern day equivalent of yellow journalism to give a shit.
My favorite part about all of this record breaking weather is that the old record is almost always within the last 5 years, and the last 4 or 5 records are always in my lifetime. It’s almost like everything climate scientists predicted publicly and fossil fuel execs talked about privately for the last 50 years or so is coming true exactly as predicted.
No no that’s not the case at all this is just alarmism. In actuality it’s all coming true much faster than they predicted.
alarmism
I love when they say that. Sometimes the reason the smoke alarm is going off is that the house is on fire.
Not surprising since the July that happened.
Does this factor in inflation at all? If not it’s a completely meaningless metric.
What about the other metric stated in the same sentence? Poor take
It’s not accountingfor inflation, and it’s not a completely useless metric. It’s great at showing the increase of population centers in places that have been historically volatile.
