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The US government just killed an essential way to assess climate risk

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The US government just killed an essential way to assess climate risk

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago

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The government just killed an essential way to assess climate risk

Cities, insurers, and the public used the Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database to plan for the future. So now what?

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Cutting that database is gonna be an expensive decision.

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