The Economic & Human Cost of Extreme Heat: Thousands of Deaths, Billions of Dollars
Visier
OCTOBER 8, 2021
A 1,000-year heatwave in the Pacific Northwest. A crippling drought in the Southwest. Flash floods in Louisiana and Tennessee. A polar vortex freezing out usually-temperate states. Climate.gov classifies these weather happenings as “Extreme Events”—there are hundreds globally, but these are just in the U.S. and they’re all from this year.
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