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2020 Could’ve Been So Much Worse
A week into 2021, the lesson is already clear that things can get so, so much worse. As if to underscore that, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report on Friday looking back on 2020, which shows that the U.S. saw a record number of billion-dollar-plus disasters. Yet the total losses weren’t…
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Earth Looked Like Hell From Space This Year
On their own, each of the numerous weather calamities that befell the world in 2020 would be a crisis. But hurricane, floods, and wildfires intersected with the pandemic in ways that tested emergency response systems in ways they haven’t before. Piling the climate crisis on top of a public health crisis not only put evacuees…
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An Incomplete List of the Past 72 Hours of Unprecedented Weather-Related Calamities In The U.S.
You may have seen our earlier a piece on the swing between fire and freezing in the American West, but that only told a small portion of the wild weather Americans have experienced over the past few days. While your humble correspondent included what he deemed a “fair” amount of facts, stats, and other things…
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Hurricane Laura Is Heading for a City That Can’t Take Any More
Hurricane Laura is no joke. The U.S. National Hurricane Centre isn’t holding back on its warnings, saying the storm will bring “unsurvivable storm surge” to the Gulf Coast. This is the weather of nightmares, and it’s less than 12 hours away from making landfall.