Extreme weather events cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars this year
1 week, 6 days ago

Extreme weather events cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars this year

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Extreme weather events in 2024 will ultimately cost Americans more than $500 billion in total damage, according to a new estimate from AccuWeather. That steep sum comes after a year filled with extreme weather events — which have become increasingly commonplace across the U.S. — that often had deadly consequences. “This was one of the most destructive and expensive hurricane seasons in modern history.” “The impacts of extreme weather have taken a major financial and emotional toll on millions of Americans this year. Now, a new estimate says extreme weather events this year will cost the country more than $500 billion in total damage and loss ) As of November 1, there were 24 confirmed weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion, including two winter storms, a wildfire, four tropical cyclones, and 17 severe storms.

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Hurricane Helene to Typhoon Yagi: Worst climate disasters of 2024 that caused billions in damage
1 week, 2 days ago

Hurricane Helene to Typhoon Yagi: Worst climate disasters of 2024 that caused billions in damage

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Disasters are being supercharged by decisions to keep burning fossil fuels, and to allow emissions to rise.” open image …

$228 billion lost, 2,000 lives taken: The shocking cost of 10 worst climate disasters of 2024 revealed
1 week, 3 days ago

$228 billion lost, 2,000 lives taken: The shocking cost of 10 worst climate disasters of 2024 revealed

Live Mint  

2024 year-ender: Ever wondered what is the economic cost of extreme weather events? Well, the ten worst climate disasters resulted in an estimated damage of over $228 billion worldwide in 2024, a new report revealed. The report titled ‘Counting the Cost 2024: A Year of Climate Breakdown’ by Christian Aid also highlights ten extreme weather events that didn’t rack up …

'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024
1 week, 5 days ago

'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024

Raw Story  

From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024. World Weather Attribution, experts on how global warming influences extreme events, said nearly every disaster they analyzed over the past 12 months was intensified by climate change. - Floods - …

Hurricanes ravaged the U.S. this year and caused $500 billion in damage and economic loss, experts say
1 month, 1 week ago

Hurricanes ravaged the U.S. this year and caused $500 billion in damage and economic loss, experts say

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Experts say hurricanes this year in the U.S. have caused around $500 billion in damage and economic losses This …

Solutions: As climate change worsens, so too will natural disasters. Here’s how to pay for them
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Solutions: As climate change worsens, so too will natural disasters. Here’s how to pay for them

LA Times  

These days it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. At the U.N. climate conference in 2022, participating countries agreed to create a new method — a fund for loss and damage, generally defined as consequences of climate change that go beyond what people are able to …

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion
1 month, 4 weeks ago

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion

CNN  

CNN — Last month, two major storms, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, caused a total of between $51.5 billion and $81.5 billion of property damage, mostly to Southeastern US states, according to estimates from CoreLogic. The report from the International Chamber of Commerce, which comes as the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins in Azerbaijan this week, estimated that the …

How much worse will extreme heat get by 2050? New report outlines worrisome future
7 months, 2 weeks ago

How much worse will extreme heat get by 2050? New report outlines worrisome future

LA Times  

The next quarter of a century will bring considerable climate danger to millions of Americans living in disadvantaged communities, who will not only experience increased exposure to life-threatening extreme heat but also greater hardships from reduced energy reliability, a new nationwide report has found. Under a moderate-emissions scenario — one in which current fossil fuel consumption peaks in the coming …

US suffered 28 extreme weather events in 2023, lost $93 billion in damages
11 months, 4 weeks ago

US suffered 28 extreme weather events in 2023, lost $93 billion in damages

India Today  

In an unprecedented year for climate extremes, the United States grappled with a historic number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, as reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The nation's average temperature soared to the fifth-highest on record, signaling a troubling trend that experts attribute to climate change and possibly the El Nino weather phenomenon. The global stage also …

REVEALED: The US has suffered a record 23 billion-dollar climate disasters so far this year costing an eye-watering $57.6 BILLION - as tornadoes, wildfires and flooding ravaged the nation
1 year, 3 months ago

REVEALED: The US has suffered a record 23 billion-dollar climate disasters so far this year costing an eye-watering $57.6 BILLION - as tornadoes, wildfires and flooding ravaged the nation

Daily Mail  

Hundreds of Americans have died due to climate catastrophes in 2023, which has already smashed records for the highest number of billion-dollar disasters incurred in a single year. With four months still to go, the US has been struck by 23 disasters which came at a loss of at least $1 billion each - eclipsing the previous annual record of …

U.S. sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — with 4 months still to go
1 year, 3 months ago

U.S. sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — with 4 months still to go

LA Times  

Ryan Orosco carries his son, Johnny, on his back amid floodwaters around their home in the Northern California city of Brentwood in January. The deadly fires in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the U.S. to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more — with four months still to go …

US sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — and there’s still 4 months to go
1 year, 3 months ago

US sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — and there’s still 4 months to go

Associated Press  

The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. “I would not expect things to slow down anytime soon.” NOAA has been tracking billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States since 1980 and adjusts damage costs for inflation. …

US sees record number of ‘billion-dollar’ disasters so far this year
1 year, 3 months ago

US sees record number of ‘billion-dollar’ disasters so far this year

Al Jazeera  

The government agency NOAA has tallied 23 billion-dollar weather disasters, surpassing a previous record set the year before. The United States has experienced a record number of natural disasters with damage estimated at more than $1bn, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association reported, as extreme weather events increase due to climate change. NOAA, a federal weather and storm monitoring agency, …

How to predict record-shattering weather events
1 year, 7 months ago

How to predict record-shattering weather events

Hindustan Times  

The heatwave that struck parts of North America’s Pacific coast in 2021 propelled temperatures in Lytton, a village in British Columbia, to 49.6°C—4.6° higher than the previous record. That makes it much more complex.” To try to understand what had happened, Dr Thompson’s team simulated British winters between 1981 and 2015 many thousands of times, and looked at the spread …

Two million killed, $4.3 trillion in damages from extreme weather over past half-century: World Meteorological Organisation
1 year, 7 months ago

Two million killed, $4.3 trillion in damages from extreme weather over past half-century: World Meteorological Organisation

The Hindu  

Nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over the past half-century around the globe have killed more than 2 million people and caused economic damage of $4.3 trillion, the U.N. weather agency said on May 22. The Geneva-based agency has repeatedly warned about the impact of man-made climate change, saying rising temperatures have increased the frequency and intensity of …

The staggering human cost of extreme weather revealed
1 year, 7 months ago

The staggering human cost of extreme weather revealed

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As many as 11,778 disasters have been reported since …

Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll
1 year, 8 months ago

Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll

The Hindu  

An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they have recently experienced an extreme weather event, a new poll shows, and most of them attribute that to climate change. Adriana Moreno said she feels like she's been talking about climate change for years, but it's only recently that the 22-year-old high school teacher has noticed her older family …

Climate change helped make 2022 the 3rd most expensive year on record
1 year, 11 months ago

Climate change helped make 2022 the 3rd most expensive year on record

The Hindu  

US weather disasters are getting costlier as more people move into vulnerable areas and climate change raises the risks of extreme heat and rainfall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned as it released its annual billion-dollar disasters report on January 10, 2023. For example, “it is clear that climate change increases the upper limit on hurricane strength and rain …

NOAA: Ian, drought supercharged US weather extremes in 2022
1 year, 11 months ago

NOAA: Ian, drought supercharged US weather extremes in 2022

Associated Press  

DENVER — Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday. Even though 2022 wasn’t near record hot for the United States, it was the third-wildest year nationally both in number of extremes …

California storm costs could add up to nation’s first billion-dollar disaster of 2023
1 year, 11 months ago

California storm costs could add up to nation’s first billion-dollar disaster of 2023

LA Times  

As severe storms continue to hit California, a climate expert warns that the costs to the state could be in excess of $1 billion. The total is a reflection of “physical damage to homes, businesses and municipal properties,” said Adam Smith, an applied climatologist and disaster expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Clearly, when everything is said and …

New abnormal: Climate disaster damage 'down' to $268 billion
2 years ago

New abnormal: Climate disaster damage 'down' to $268 billion

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We’re just getting used to it but that’s not …

Column: Could extreme heat be just what California needs to finally solve homelessness?
2 years, 3 months ago

Column: Could extreme heat be just what California needs to finally solve homelessness?

LA Times  

Kim Burrell gives a bottle of water to Freddie Ramirez in Sacramento on Sept. 6. “These days are extreme examples of what is wrong and broken in the first place,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, a longtime champion for a legal right to shelter and healthcare. “If extreme weather can help drive the change that is necessary, then let’s take …

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says
2 years, 11 months ago

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says

NPR  

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says Enlarge this image toggle caption Gillian Flaccus/AP Gillian Flaccus/AP Wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and a winter storm and cold wave were among 20 weather and climate disasters in the U.S. last year that cost $1 billion or more, totaling $145 billion and killing 688 people, according …

2021 was US’s fourth hottest year on record with 20 billion-dollar climate disasters
2 years, 11 months ago

2021 was US’s fourth hottest year on record with 20 billion-dollar climate disasters

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The US had 20 separate, billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in 2021 during its fourth-hottest …

Deadly extreme weather year for US as carbon emissions soar
2 years, 11 months ago

Deadly extreme weather year for US as carbon emissions soar

Associated Press  

The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021, while the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year jumped 6% because of surges in coal and long-haul trucking, putting America further behind its 2030 climate change cutting goal. And last year was the deadliest weather year for the contiguous United …

Hurricane Ida, Europe floods made 2021 costly for disasters
2 years, 11 months ago

Hurricane Ida, Europe floods made 2021 costly for disasters

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Damage wrought by Hurricane Ida in the U.S. state of Louisiana and the flash floods that hit Europe last summer helped make 2021 one of the most expensive years for natural disasters, reinsurance company Munich Re said Monday. The company’s annual report put the overall economic losses from natural disasters worldwide last year at $280 billion, making it …

Deadly extreme weather year for U.S. as carbon emissions soar
2 years, 11 months ago

Deadly extreme weather year for U.S. as carbon emissions soar

LA Times  

2021 had the second-highest number of billion-dollar weather disasters — which are adjusted for inflation with records going back to 1980 — and third costliest. The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021, while the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year jumped 6% because of surges in coal …

Top 10 extreme climate events of 2021 each cost over $1.5 bn of damage, report says
3 years ago

Top 10 extreme climate events of 2021 each cost over $1.5 bn of damage, report says

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The ten most devastating climate events of 2021, including hurricanes in the US, China, and …

Climate disasters cost the world billions of dollars in 2021
3 years ago

Climate disasters cost the world billions of dollars in 2021

Live Mint  

The world continued to tackle covid-19 in 2021 but the climate change crisis didn’t stop. A new report from the UK-based non-profit Christian Aid looks at the ten most financially devastating climate events of 2021, from hurricanes in the US, China and India to floods in Australia, Europe and Canada. The resulting floods killed at least 240 people and caused …

COP26: As climate damage mounts, poor nations press wealthy to pay up
3 years, 2 months ago

COP26: As climate damage mounts, poor nations press wealthy to pay up

India Today  

Poor nations are pressuring their wealthy counterparts at the U.N. climate summit to pay up for the mounting damage being caused by global warming, pointing to increasing powerful storms, cyclones, droughts and floods afflicting their people. A study commissioned by development agency Christian Aid, meanwhile, estimated that climate damage could cost vulnerable countries a fifth of their gross domestic product …

Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year
3 years, 2 months ago

Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year

Associated Press  

Climate change in 2021 reshaped life on planet Earth through extreme weather. Heat waves proved deadly and unprecedented, pushing temperatures in the Northwest and even reaching 116 degrees Fahrenheit in Portland, Oregon, a city known for its mild climate. “These events would have been impossible without human-caused climate change,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. A report from AIR Worldwide, a …

Extreme weather to cost US over $100bn this year: Joe Biden
3 years, 3 months ago

Extreme weather to cost US over $100bn this year: Joe Biden

Al Jazeera  

The US president made the comments while touring western states ravaged by wildfires as another hurricane battered southern states. President Joe Biden predicted extreme weather events are set to cost the United States more than $100bn this year after a series of raging wildfires and punishing hurricanes wrought havoc across the country. He made the comments after touring the National …

Biden pushes to combat climate crisis while surveying wildfire damage in Western US
3 years, 3 months ago

Biden pushes to combat climate crisis while surveying wildfire damage in Western US

CNN  

CNN — President Joe Biden surveyed wildfire damage in the Western US on Monday, using nearly every stop on his trip to illustrate how recent extreme weather events underscore the urgency of his economic agenda and its investments in the nation’s infrastructure. At Sacramento Mather Airport, the President delivered a speech on his administration’s response to the fires, describing how …

UN: Weather disasters soar in numbers, cost, but deaths fall
3 years, 4 months ago

UN: Weather disasters soar in numbers, cost, but deaths fall

Associated Press  

GENEVA — Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports. “We are going to see more climatic extremes because of climate change, and these negative trends in climate will continue for the coming decades.” In the 1970s, the world averaged …

Study: Sharp rise in extreme weather events in last 50 yrs
3 years, 10 months ago

Study: Sharp rise in extreme weather events in last 50 yrs

Hindustan Times  

A new paper by scientists from ministry of earth sciences has revealed a sharp rise in extreme weather events in India in the past 50 years, although the overall mortality due to extreme weather events has been declining, pointing to both the challenge posed by the climate crisis, and the fact that governments have become better at saving lives, although …

A Looming Disaster: New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat
3 years, 10 months ago

A Looming Disaster: New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat

NPR  

A Looming Disaster: New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat toggle caption Ryan Kellman/NPR Pastor Aaron Trigg was at home when the water arrived in Rainelle. FEMA warns that the First Street Foundation's analysis is only an estimate and that FEMA didn't provide the research group with details about the new flood insurance pricing plan, known as …

Nearly 500,000 killed by extreme weather disasters in 20 years
3 years, 11 months ago

Nearly 500,000 killed by extreme weather disasters in 20 years

Al Jazeera  

Researchers say rich nations are not doing enough to help developing countries with the deadly fallout from global warming. Almost half a million people have been killed in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, with the world’s poorest countries increasingly bearing the brunt of climate change’s wrath. Germanwatch’s Global Climate Index examined the impact …

World's top 10 environment disasters caused $150 billion worth of damages : report
4 years ago

World's top 10 environment disasters caused $150 billion worth of damages : report

Firstpost  

Earth’s average surface temperature has gone up at least 1.1 degrees C on average compared to late 19th-century, with much of that warming occurring in the last half-century. The ten costliest weather disasters worldwide this year saw insured damages worth $150 billion, topping the figure for 2019 and reflecting a long-term impact of global warming, according to a report Monday. …

U.N. climate report urges governments to put more money into early-warning systems
4 years, 2 months ago

U.N. climate report urges governments to put more money into early-warning systems

The Hindu  

In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the U.N. weather agency is warning that the number of people who need international humanitarian help could rise 50% by 2030 compared to the 108 million who needed it worldwide in 2018. It said over 11,000 disasters have been attributed to weather, …

Climate change spurs doubling of disasters since 2000: UN
4 years, 2 months ago

Climate change spurs doubling of disasters since 2000: UN

Hindustan Times  

Climate change is largely to blame for a near doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years, the United Nations said on Monday. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said 7,348 major disaster events had occurred between 2000 and 2019. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said 7,348 major disaster events had occurred between 2000 and 2019, …

Climate change: Natural catastrophes cost $150 billion in 2019
5 years ago

Climate change: Natural catastrophes cost $150 billion in 2019

CNN  

London CNN Business — Hurricanes, wildfires and floods cost the world $150 billion in 2019 and losses for business and the economy are only expected to increase, because of a decade-long rise in natural catastrophes with direct links to climate change. “We expect 2020 to be part of this trend towards increasing losses from weather-related disasters, a trend that we …

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