Climate Change: How much did it cost US economy in 2020?
The year 2020 saw a record number of costly hurricanes, wildfires, and storms, resulting in billions of dollars in damages.
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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