https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59623970Kentucky tornadoes: Desperate search for survivors as death toll rises
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damn 97 and she has the presence of mind AND the physical ability to climb in a bathtub and survive it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59623970Kentucky tornadoes: Desperate search for survivors as death toll rises
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Why climate lawsuits are surging
Cost of world’s 10 most expensive natural disasters rises to $170bn, aid group finds
The 10 most expensive weather disasters this year caused more than $170bn in damage, $20bn more than in 2020, a British aid group has found.
Christian Aid said the upward trend reflects the effects of manmade climate change and added that the 10 disasters in question also killed at least 1,075 people and displaced 1.3 million.
Each year, the aid group calculates the cost of weather incidents like flooding, fires and heatwaves according to insurance claims. In 2020, it found the world’s 10 costliest weather disasters caused $150bn in damage, making this year’s total an increase of 13%.
The most expensive disaster in 2021 was Hurricane Ida, which lashed the eastern United States and caused around $65bn in damage. After crashing into Louisiana at the end of August, it made its way northward and caused extensive flooding in New York City and the surrounding area.
Spectacular and deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium in July was next on the list at $43bn in losses.
A cold snap and winter storm in Texas that took out the vast state’s power grid cost $23bn, followed by flooding in China’s Henan province in July that cost an estimated $17.6bn...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... roup-finds
More than 400 weather stations around the world beat their all-time highest temperature records in 2021, according to a climatologist who has been compiling weather records for over 30 years.
Maximiliano Herrera keeps track of extreme weather around the world, and publishes an annual list of records broken in the previous year. He and many other climatologists and meteorologists who follow these issues closely expect that 2021 will probably not be the hottest year in history (Noaa and Nasa will publish their results in the next few days).
But it is likely to be in the top five or six, continuing the long-term upward trend. The past six years have been the six hottest on record.
And, as is now the norm, a sheaf of new heat records have been broken, according to Herrera. Ten countries – Oman, UAE, Canada, the United States, Morocco, Turkey, Taiwan, Italy, Tunisia and Dominica – broke or tied their national highest record, 107 countries beat their monthly high temperature record, and five beat their monthly low temperature record...
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