"The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the Nation's Scorekeeper in
terms of addressing severe weather/climate events in their historical
perspective. As part of its responsibility of monitoring and assessing
the climate, NCDC tracks and evaluates climate events in the U.S. and
globally that have great economic and societal impacts. NCDC is
frequently called upon to provide summaries of global and U.S.
temperature and precipitation trends, extremes, and comparisons in their
historical perspective. Found here are the weather/climate events that
have had the greatest economic impact from 1980 to 2013. The U.S. has
sustained 170 weather/climate disasters since 1980 where overall
damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment
to 2013). The total cost of these 170 events exceeds $1 trillion..."
Climate disasters and economics
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