Country has experienced 23 extreme weather events costing $1bn or more already this year, passing previous mark of 22 in 2020

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.

  • Evie @lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Wait, how? Forgive my ignorance, I was 11 when bush and an Al Gore went head to head… what happened and how did the court affect this?

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida

      A lot of bullshit went down, from confusing ballots, to voter roll purges, to hanging chad, to Roger Stone (yes, that Roger Stone) organizing a “protest” of Republican staffers to disrupt proceedings and cause them to miss a deadline, to ultimately the Supreme Court saying that since Florida did not have a statewide standard for recounts, and to implement one would miss another deadline, they could not perform a recount, giving the electoral votes and the election to Bush.

      • Evie @lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Oh, that’s what happened… this is the explanation of the recount plea Gore did and why it was ended? I had a really limited understanding of what happened there, but wow, now that you highlighted what really happened… that is sooo shity… so much more shity then the 'Al Gore wants a recount ’ it sounds like he had a legitimate claims for recount and the court blocked it? Am I understanding correctly?

        • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Right. And they started to do recounts, but the Republicans pulled out all the stops to block it at every turn, up to and including a conservative-leaning Supreme Court.

          It was just one more step in the post-Nixon Republican political machine.