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It would be harder for insurers and scientists to study wildfires, storms and other \u201cbillion dollar disasters,\u201d which are growing more frequent as the planet warms.<\/p>\n

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday<\/a> it would stop tracking the cost of the country\u2019s most expensive disasters, those which cause at least $1 billion in damage.<\/p>\n

The move would leave insurance companies, researchers and government policymakers without information to help understand the patterns of major disasters like hurricanes, drought or wildfires, and their economic consequences, starting this year.Those events are becoming more frequent or severe as the planet grows hotter, although not all disasters are linked to climate change.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest effort from the Trump administration to restrict or eliminate climate research. In recent weeks the administration has dismissed the authors working on the nation\u2019s biggest climate assessment<\/a>, planned to eliminate National Parks grants<\/a> focused on climate change, and released a budget plan that would cut significantly climate science<\/a> from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Energy and Defense departments.<\/p>\n

Researchers and lawmakers criticized Thursday\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

Jesse M. Keenan, associate professor and director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism at Tulane University in New Orleans, said ending the data collection would cripple efforts by federal and state governments to set budgets or make decisions on investment in infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt defies logic,\u201d he said. Without the database, \u201cthe U.S. government\u2019s flying blind as to the cost of extreme weather and climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a comment on Bluesky<\/a>, Senator Ed Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, wrote \u201cIt\u2019s anti-science, anti-safety, and anti-American.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It would be harder for insurers and scientists to study wildfires, storms and other \u201cbillion dollar disasters,\u201d which are growing more frequent as the planet warms.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday it would stop tracking the cost of the country\u2019s most expensive disasters, those which cause at least $1 billion in damage.The move would leave insurance companies, researchers and government policymakers without information to help understand the patterns of major disasters like hurricanes, drought or wildfires, and their economic consequences, starting this year.Those events are becoming more frequent or severe as the planet grows hotter, although not all disasters are linked to climate change.It\u2019s the latest effort from the Trump administration to restrict or eliminate climate research. In recent weeks the administration has dismissed the authors working on the nation\u2019s biggest climate assessment, planned to eliminate National Parks grants focused on climate change, and released a budget plan that would cut significantly climate science from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Energy and Defense departments.Researchers and lawmakers criticized Thursday\u2019s decision.Jesse M. Keenan, associate professor and director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism at Tulane University in New Orleans, said ending the data collection would cripple efforts by federal and state governments to set budgets or make decisions on investment in infrastructure.\u201cIt defies logic,\u201d he said. Without the database, \u201cthe U.S. government\u2019s flying blind as to the cost of extreme weather and climate change.\u201dIn a comment on Bluesky, Senator Ed Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, wrote \u201cIt\u2019s anti-science, anti-safety, and anti-American.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27428,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27429,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27426\/revisions\/27429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}