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NOAA Quietly Kills Its Billion-Dollar Disaster Database And Report After Years Of Criticism
« on: May 09, 2025, 06:55:23 am »
NOAA Quietly Kills Its Billion-Dollar Disaster Database And Report After Years Of Criticism
NOAA announced that the program has been officially retired and won't be updated.
by Roger Pielke Jr.  May 09, 2025, 6:52 AM
 
Last June, my peer-reviewed paper on problems with NOAA’s Billion-Dollar Disaster (BDD) tabulation was published. [emphasis, links added]

Today, NOAA announced that the BDD tabulation would no longer be updated by the agency, explaining that it has been “retired.”


While some media have chosen to make the BDD retirement about the Trump administration, there has also been some excellent reporting indicating that the retirement of the tabulation is a bit more complicated.

CBS News has excellent reporting:

https://climatechangedispatch.com/noaa-quietly-kills-its-billion-dollar-disaster-database-and-report-after-years-of-criticism/
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