National Ocean and Atmospheric Department He said on Thursday The value of the country's most expensive disasters will stop watching the value of those who harms at least $ 1 billion.
The movement will inform insurance companies, researchers and government politicians, this year without information to help you understand the examples of major disasters such as hurricanes, drought or wild flames. Although all these events are related to climate change, the planet becomes more often, as the planet is growing or aggravated.
Trump management is the latest effort to limit or remove climate research. There are leadership in recent weeks The authors working on the largest climate assessment of the nation were rejectedIt is scheduled Eliminate Grants of National Parks Aimed at climate change and published a budget plan would have cut significantly climate science US geological research and energy and protection departments.
Researchers and MPs criticized the decision on Thursday.
Jesse M. Keenan, Associate Professor and New Orleans University, Director of Climate Change and Urbanism, said that the information collection will set a decision on budgets by the federal and state governments, or the investment of infrastructure.
“It's against this logic,” he said. Without the database, “U.S. government flies for the price of extreme air and climate change.”
In A comment about BlueskyMassachusetts Democrat, Massachusetts Democrat, “This anti-science, anti-America and Anti-America” wrote.
Several bodies, Virginia Iglesias, Colorado University can repeat the type of database of Virginia Iglesias, a climate researcher. “This is one of the most consistent and reliable records of economic loss related in the country,” he said. “The power of the database lies in reliability.”
The so-called billion dollar disasters – those with the cost of 10 digits of the Shara's 10 digits are growing over time. In the 1980s, when the note begins, when it is adjusted for an average of three years and average inflation. From 2020 to 2024 to 2024, there were 23 years a year.
In total, at least 403 such events have occurred in the United States since 1980. Last year, 27 was the first until 2023 (28).
Last year, Helene and Milton, who entered the disasters, caused about $ 113 billion in a place, and more than 250 deaths were damaged and more than $ 3 billion, and more than 100 people lost $ 5 billion.
National centers about NOAA environment plans to stand The “developing priorities, legal mandates and personnel changes” of these billion dollars, the agency said in an e-mail.
When asked, the Agency announces the price label of another branch of the NOAA or Federal Agency to open the price label and explicitly. The announcement will be archived from 1980 to 2024 in 2024 since 2024. However, the number of disasters since 2025, for example, the wild flames of Los Angeles and their number Billions of dollars damagedwill not be followed and not informed of the public.
“You can't fix what you don't measure,” said the director of the climate and security center Erin Sikorsky. “If we lose this information about the costs of these disasters, the American people and the Congress do not know which risks of the environment are the risks to our country.”
Other institutions or agencies probably include data collection, because the companies contain special insurance information they are careful not to share, said Mrs. Sikorsky said. “This is a pretty unique contribution.”