NOAA Will Stop Tracking Weather Disasters

Photo: U.S. Airmen assigned to the 202nd Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (RED HORSE) Squadron, Florida Air National Guard, clear roads in Keaton Beach, Florida, after the landfall of Hurricane Helene, Sept. 27, 2024. […] Photo credit: U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob Hancock via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Frank Landymore. Futurism – May 9, 2025. Archived NOAA database: Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will no longer update its widely cited list of weather and climate disasters that cause billions of dollars in damage, in yet another stunning example of the Trump administration’s hostility towards climate science. For over fifty years, NOAA has tracked extreme weather events, including tornadoes, hurricanes, and droughts. The database has provided the public, media institutions, and scientists a vital way of gauging the human and economic toll of our ever-shifting climate, with its unique pool of data that other institutions don’t have access to. […]

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