From the hottest oceans on record to billions of dollars in climate-related disaster in 2021, here are three climate & cleantech stories.
), and NOAA also determined 2021 was the fourth-hottest year on record in the U.S. By far the most expensive disaster, Hurricane Ida left a $74 billion trail of destruction from Louisiana to New York and four months later residents are finally moving from tent camps into trailers.
“2021 was, in essence, watching the climate projections of the past come true,” Rachel Licker, a senior climate scientist at UCS, told. “The fingerprints of climate change were all over many of the billion-dollar events that hit the US this year.” Just from disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage, extreme weather has inflicted $750 billion of damage on the U.S. in the past five years alone. The reports came as
and Senate Republicans hold up the Build Back Better Act and its $555 billion in climate and clean energy provisions.found U.S. climate pollution jumped more than 6% from 2020 to 2021, while Munich Re announced that globally, natural disasters cost the world $280 billion in 2021, of which only $120 billion was covered by insurers.
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