The Trump administration has initiated severe staff reductions at NOAA, leading to the discontinuation of the billion-dollar weather and climate disasters database. This database, established since 1980, is essential for tracking the financial impact of climate emergencies, which have escalated in recent years. NOAA's decision leaves communities without vital updated cost data for emerging weather threats, despite historical data being archived. The discontinuation raises concerns especially for regions prone to frequent billion-dollar disasters, as they will struggle to understand the full impact of increasing climate events.
Perhaps most notably, the NOAA announced it would be shuttering the 'billion-dollar weather and climate disasters' database for vague reasons.
Considering that CNN noted the average number of disasters in the past five years jumped from nine annually to 24, shutting down the database could leave communities in the dark on costs of emerging threats.
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