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.
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.
I love when they say that. Sometimes the reason the smoke alarm is going off is that the house is on fire.