DENVER: Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least US$1 billion in damage each, totalling more than US$165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday (Jan 10). Even though 2022 was not near record hot for th
DENVER: Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least US$1 billion in damage each, totalling more than US$165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday .
“Climate change is supercharging many of these extremes that can lead to billion-dollar disasters,” said NOAA applied climatologist and economist Adam Smith, who calculates the disasters, updating them to factor out inflation. He said more people are also building in harm’s way, along pricey coasts and rivers, and lack of strong construction standards is also an issue. With a good chunk of development beachside, real estate inflation could be a small localised factor, he said.
The problem is especially bad when it comes to dangerous heat, said NOAA climate scientist Stephanie Herring, who edits an annual study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that calculates how much of the extreme weather in past years were worsened by climate change. “It’s not just one but many, many different types of extremes across much of the country,” Smith said. “If extremes were on a bingo card, we almost filled up the card over the last several years.”
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