The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday it will archive its database of billion-dollar climate disasters, as the Trump administration reduces the resources available to the agency.
The database has measured the direct costs of major weather disasters in the U.S. since 1980. It collects information from federal and state agencies and insurance companies to estimate the dollar impacts of individual events such as hurricanes or wildfires. As the data accumulates, it also provides insight into historical weather and climate trends, and future-looking disaster risk mapping for the whole U.S.
This is the kind of thing that will impact further in the near future when we cannot quantify the potential cost of catastrophic events and plan accordingly as a country.
Just to confirm how moronic this is, know every insurance company has a CAT event list and claims linked to these for underwriting to price these accordingly.
But doing this, the government is saying we don’t know how much rebuild or assistance will cost and either will not foot any of that OR will botch and misdristribute resources as the proportion and cost is now unknown.
This is the penny wise pound foolish mentality people supported with their vote.
