Image: 20201211 Billion dollar events related to climate change - U.S. -en

Description: Graph of number billion-dollar climate-related events in the United States, and annual costs of those events, based on NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. Relevant news event: "(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." (The Guardian source, May 2025) and archive thereof) Versions 10+ are updates through 2024. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series (can click on "Access Data") Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20250202050919/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series Versions 8 and 9 are updates through 2023. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series/US Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20240113044752/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series/US Version 6 is an update through 2022. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series (click "Access data") Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20221231055639/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series Version 4 is an update through 2021, with sources: Data: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/archive-management-system/OAS/bin/prd/jquery/accession/download/209268 (choose bottom entry "209268.8.8.tar.gz" to download and unpackage the gz file) Nice graphic: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/calculating-cost-weather-and-climate-disasters Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20220111143455/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/calculating-cost-weather-and-climate-disasters Most XML code for Version 4 was made by the Column Chart and Horizontal Bar Chart spreadsheets at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Earlier versions were made with Inkscape. Version 2 is an update through end of 2020, with source: Contiguous U.S. ranked fifth warmest during 2020; Alaska experienced its coldest year since 2012 / 2020 Billion Dollar Disasters and Other Notable Extremes. NCEI.NOAA.gov. NOAA (January 2021). Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20210108185719/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202012 Version 1 upload is based on data through September 2020, indicated by the "+" above 2020's bar in bar chart. access to source: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0153/0209268/ after clicking on "Download individual files for accession": https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0153/0209268/ PNG of NOAA graphic: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0153/0209268/4.4/data/0-data/Jan1980-Sept2020%20U.S.%20Billion-dollar%20disasters%20time-series%20(final).png 2020-12-12 archive of NOAA's PNG graphic: https://web.archive.org/web/20201212061514/https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0153/0209268/4.4/data/0-data/Jan1980-Sept2020%20U.S.%20Billion-dollar%20disasters%20time-series%20%28final%29.png Cover story: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/ 2020-12-10 archive of cover story: https://web.archive.org/web/20201210044128/https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/ Downloaded data listing is provided below.
Title: 20201211 Billion dollar events related to climate change - U.S. -en
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