New post from Alexa St. John, Associated Press ✉
NOAA has stopped tracking the financial impact of climate-related disasters like floods and wildfires, reflecting the current U.S. administration’s broader efforts to reduce federal focus on climate change– and misconstrue the fact that climate change is happening.
For decades, NOAA has tracked hundreds of major events across the country, including destructive hurricanes, hail storms, droughts and freezes that have totaled trillions of dollars in damage.
The cost of climate related disasters is projected to exceed the total amount of dollars needed world wide to mitigate climate change.
