NOAA Will Stop Tracking Costs of Climate Crisis-Fueled Disasters in Wake of White House Cuts

From the article: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — which has been experiencing massive staff layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration — has announced it will stop tracking the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters, including heat waves, floods and wildfires.

The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and that this information — which stretches back 45 years — would be archived, reported The Associated Press.

“This administration thinks that if they stop doing the work to identify climate change that climate change will go away,” said Democratic Representative from Illinois Eric Sorensen, who was a broadcast meteorologist before being elected to Congress, as The Washington Post reported.

On its website, NOAA said there have been no billion-dollar disasters through April 8 of 2025. However, NCEI scientists, who maintain the database, suggest that six to eight have already occurred this year.

These include the deadly wildfires that decimated parts of Los Angeles at the start of the year. The wildfires destroyed approximately $150 billion in property and infrastructure and were the most costly disaster in United States history.

Powerful storms — including tornadoes — and floods have also caused significant damage in the U.S. this year. The most costly type of weather disaster are severe thunderstorms, which pack damaging strong winds and hail. They were responsible for roughly 75 percent of the record 28 billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. in 2023.

NOAA spokesperson Kim Doster said the decision to stop updating the billion-dollar disaster database was due to “evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes,” reported The Washington Post.

When asked about billion dollar disasters, should the administration reply that NOAA hasn’t recorded any, I trust the counter will be *what does NOAA have to do with it?*

Given that there’s nothing even remotely resembling a “climate crisis”, what was exactly NOAA tracking so far??? What were the ‘trackers’ exactly doing (other than fueling climate hysteria, that is)?. Filling numbers in a spreadsheet?

The ginormous bureaucratic apparatus engaged in spreading climate hysteria should be dismantled.