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US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change (apnews.com)
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer track the cost of climate change-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change.

NOAA falls under the U.S. Department of Commerce and is tasked with daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring. It is also parent to the National Weather Service.

The agency said its National Centers for Environmental Information would no longer update its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database beyond 2024, and that its information — going as far back as 1980 — would be archived.

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[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

OK. I assure you, the insurance industry will continue to track it.

This is the same logic as "if we stop testing, the disease goes away"

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

This is the same logic as "if we stop testing, the disease goes away"

Which conservatives also spearheaded during covid, so we're par for the course.

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