Hurricane Harvey will be the 10th such event this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but the agency tracking changes in climate faces severe budget cuts under Donald TrumpEven before Hurricane Harvey began to form, out in the north Atlantic, federal climate experts signalled that 2017 was going to be a bad year for weather and climate catastrophes in America. According to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), there had already been nine climate and weather-related events that caused more than $1bn of damage. Related: A timeline of the billion-dollar weather disasters in the US over the past decade Continue reading...
2017 could see the most billion-dollar weather disasters in US history
1. září 2017 18:01
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/01/hurricane-harvey-us-billion-dollar-weather-disasters-2017
Zdroj: The Guardian