The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Thursday known “Database of millions of dollars and climate disasters “ “It will be retired,” a step that makes it impossible for the audience to track the cost of harsh weather and climatic events.
It also ends the weather, climate and ocean agency other products, as it recently announced, due to employee discounts. NOAA narrows the set of services it provides, with climate -related programs, which have been particularly examined.
The disaster database, which will be archived but no longer updated after 2024, has allowed taxpayers, media and researchers to track the cost of natural disasters-which extends over extremist events from hurricanes to storms-since 1980.
The Trump administration focused on the laser on the programs and departments associated with the “climate”, whether it is actually following the global warming phenomenon or its effects.
Some politicians and external experts in the past emphasized that the database, which shows an increase in disaster losses over time, mainly reflects the trends that depend on climate change, although NOAA says on the website: “This product has no focus on assigning climate events.”
Population growth and expansion of Hares in a Hares method are believed to be the prevailing factors behind the long -term trend. However, the increasing occurrence and The severity of some types of harsh weather Events, partly due to the change of the climate that a person causes, in inflating some of these events and making them more expensive, Studies have shown.
Vaccum Loss Information database from all over the insurance industry, among public and private sources.
According to the database, there have been 403 disasters in weather and climate at least at least a billion dollars in the United States since 1980, with a total of more than $ 2.945 trillion. As of April 8, there have been any billions of dollars confirmed so far in 2025, but it recounts four events as the ability to make the number, including Forest fires in Los Angeles In January.
Between 1980 and 2024, there have been nine such average disasters on average every year, although in the past five years, this annual average jumped to 24. Score It was 28 event in 2023.
A billion dollar disaster database, such as a non -profit company or a private company, cannot be easily repeated, as it contains countless non -public data with the government by the private industry.
In addition, companies, including insurance companies, have their own returns and methodologies that are usually closely guarded.
“What makes this resource is unique value not only its unified methodology over decades, but the fact that it derives from the sources of royal and non -general data (such as insurance loss estimates, translated government reports, and databases related to special claims) that cannot be accessed in the field of risk, alike, which are composed of financial risks.
Porter said that First Street works closely with the database.
He told CNN: “Without this, the repetition or extension of the direction of the direction of the damage, especially in regional standards or through the types of risk, is almost impossible without significant financing or institutional access to commercial disaster models.”
Other data also showed increases in natural disaster losses. For example, the reinsurance company Swiss mentioned April 29 These universal losses insured in 2025 up to 145 billion dollars, at an annual growth rate of 5 % to 7 %.
Disaster database is the latest shooting injuries, early retirement and incentive programs that aim to reduce the agency’s workforce along with the rest of the federal government. The national weather service that was particularly difficult was suffered due to employee discounts, and some of its services were cut as a result.
Spread the White House Plan to make the discounts deeper to Noa By eliminating the research department and closing the weather and climate laboratories, which would significantly reduce the data that the agency collects and allows the public.
The proposal of the management budget for the fiscal year 2026 would reduce the NOAA spending by 24 % compared to 2025.
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