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.
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.
Agreed. We might salvage something from the mess, but I think we’re past the point of no return.
I mean it’s been how many decades of scientists screaming at us? Here in Florida the coral reefs are bleached, hottest summer yet it feels like, ocean is rising.
I can’t help but think if we had listened to Al Gore.
A lot people did listen to Al Gore. We even elected him president. Then the Supreme “Court” ruined it.
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?
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.
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?
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.
Yep. Democracy died that day. It has b3en a downward spiral ever since.
Fucking Chad. I hate that guy
Problem is, even if the U$ gets our shit together (which would be great), we’re still fucked because of China, India, Russia etc.
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.
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… so far
Not surprising since the July that happened.
good, we wont change our ways until we suffer tremendously
But wait, there’s more!
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.
