Noaa to stop tracking cost of climate crisis-fueled disasters: Major loss'
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... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) will no longer track the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heatwaves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change.

Noaa falls under the US Department of Commerce and is tasked with daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring. It is also parent to the National Weather Service.

The agency said its National Centers for Environmental Information would no longer update its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database beyond 2024, and that its information " going as far back as 1980 " would be archived.

For decades, it has tracked hundreds of major events across the country, including destructive hurricanes, hailstorms, droughts and freezes that have totaled trillions of dollars in damage.
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The database uniquely pulls information from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (Fema) assistance data, insurance organizations, state agencies and more to estimate overall losses from individual disasters. ...