Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980

Updated 10 hr ago
PUBLISHED May 8, 2025, 9:36 AM ET
By Andrew Freedman

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday its well-known “billion-dollar weather and climate disasters” database “will be retired,” a move that will make it next to impossible for the public to track the cost of extreme weather and climate events.

The weather, climate and oceans agency is also ending other products, it has recently announced, due in large part to staffing reductions. NOAA is narrowing the array of services it provides, with climate-related programs scrutinized especially closely.

The disasters database, which will be archived but no longer updated beyond 2024, has allowed taxpayers, media and researchers to track the cost of natural disasters — spanning extreme events from hurricanes to hailstorms — since 1980. Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.

The Trump administration has been laser-focused on killing programs and departments that are associated with “climate,” whether they are actually tracking global warming and its effects or not.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/08/climate/noaa-ends-disaster-database

[bucolic_frolic]

1. The government of Big Data doesn't want to collect data on anything

Except if it's to suppress your civil rights. Then they want to know everything.

[progree]

2. Couldn't they keep track of disasters during Democratic admins, and also those in the first 2 years of Repuke admins

which they can blame on the previous Dem admin? That way about 3/4 of the disasters could be catalogged and published.

Trump Lies About Gas and Grocery Prices, Defends Tariffs, Rolling Stone, 5/4/25
. . . "When does it become the Trump economy?" Welker asked.
"It partially is right now," Trump said. "I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy."

Logically, they could extend this thinking beyond the economy to everything, including floods, hurricanes, wildfires, droughts etc.

Logically, well maybe not. But as I heard Mike Osterholm say about senseless administration statements and policies, paraphrasing from memory:

"It doesn't have to make sense. The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense"

The entire transcript is at https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2025/05/07/mike-osterholm-on-how-the-trump-administration-is-reshaping-public-health-in-america