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@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") retweeted:
@KHayhoe ("Prof. Katharine Hayhoe") wrote:
In the 1980s, there was one billion-dollar event every four months, on average. Now, there's one every ~3 weeks. Why? Three reasons: increasing exposure, increasing vulnerability, and the big one, increasing severity and/or frequency of weather extremes fueled by a warming world.
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@NOAANCEI ("NOAA NCEI") replied to a tweet by @NOAANCEI:
The U.S. experienced 20 #BillionDollarDisasters in 2021: 8 severe weather events, 4 tropical cyclone events, 3 tornado outbreaks, 2 flooding events, 1 drought/heat wave event, 1 winter storm/cold wave event, and 1 wildfire event. http://bit.ly/USClimate202112 #StateOfClimate
