Climate Change: How much did it cost US economy in 2020? - BBC News

The year 2020 saw a record number of costly hurricanes, wildfires, and storms, resulting in billions of dollars in damages - including 22 extreme weather events that cost over $1bn each in the US.

Since records began in 1980, billion-dollar climate disasters have become much more frequent, and in total have cost the US economy $1.875tn over those four decades, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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[annj]

You talk about billions of dollars but what about all of the people that perished too.

[mandyrule]

If people want to drive big 7ltr engine motors they can pay for it. No sympathy

[KunKhmerandKhmerBoatRacing]

Plz keep helping the world to prevent climate change 🇰🇭🐘🙏

[BabyBane]

Get real BBC ?? are you trying to say America never had hurricanes, and wildfires before ??

[gamingtonight]

If "we've waited too long", how can we "not wait any longer"?!

[worldanalytics]

Climate change is really something we should be worrying about. I wish people would take pollution more seriously.

[Martial-Mat]

Yeah but it didn't cost the people CAUSING the worst pollution - the corporations and fossil fuel and livestock industries. If your taxes and insurance go up as a result, what do they care?

[philc]

Did the billion-dollar climate event chart include inflation?

[robotron]

*Public Health England:* "All deaths with a positive specimen (including at post-mortem) are counted *REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OF DEATH!"*

[thatsmybird]

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[KetogenicGuitars]

In US economy $1.875tn is good booster. But as forced costs through disasters the investment is random. They could also choose to use 2 trillion as investment to prevent those disasters. That would create steady jobs with monthly wages.

[Rudyard_Stripling]

It got so hot in Texas last week that people melted in some areas.

[anonymousturtle]

We're in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic, where cold weather exacerbates the illness's spread (as cold weathrr does with colds, flus and other respiratory illnesses.) In a normal year, cold weather kills about ~100, 000 Americans through that and heart attacks. An extreme cold weather event just hit most of the U.S., causing acute catastrophes in places like Texas.

And what does the BBC report about? Hurricanes, the number of which haven't changed for a century, and the "problem" of global warming. It would be funny, if it wasn't such dangerous and deadly groupthink nonsense.

[mcmilk]

How about unnecessary lockdown measures and quantitive easing to subsidise it I’m sure that did a lot more damage than the weather

[matthewmann]

Lots of objects and properties apparently

[karebu]

Thought trump had a greater (negative) impact

[sweatymrkim]

Climate change is real. I no longer wear my furry shorts in winter.

[TheRobo]

How much did China cost the US economy in 2020 ?

[jonnsonsam]

We're at 400 ppm of co2. If they get it down to 150 ppm plants die. Followed shortly by us. Funnily enough the ppm used to be way higher and yet the world kept on turning (but was greener)