An astonishing 22 separate weather and climate disasters costing over $1 billion each occurred in the US in 2020, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says, shattering the annual record of 16 costly disasters in both 2011 and 2017.https://cnn.it/35mfGpW
Tremendously misleading. The number of billion-dollar disasters will of course increase as society gets richer When corrected for increased wealth, the world and the US are not seeing increasing damages (but insignificantly *decreasing* damages) https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1347899126277615617 …pic.twitter.com/SGg2pU71WJ
