A spot of hope: this is a dataset that we may be able to crowdsource. Insurance companies, attribution scientists, and outside evaluators already estimate the cost of disasters, and so we can probably "life raft" this until we have an administration that gives a damn about the American people.

What better indication that the Trump admin would have us stick our heads in the sand as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods sweep through our country and kill our friends and neighbors? Climate disasters don't exist if you don't collect data about them!

$2.9 trillion dollars of total cost in billion dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, and 16,941 Americans killed. Why would you want to collect data about such trivial events!?

It's easy to see why an administration so beholden to fossil fuel interests would feel threatened by this data. This dataset shows, directly, the $ cost to Americans of climate disasters, and provides a valuable timeseries of the increasing frequency of such disasters.

But data availability isn't the main problem here: supposedly, all reports will remain available on the site: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi.... The biggest problem is that THIS is no longer a priority for the government.

Thanks for the tip, @lizneeley.bsky.social !