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      US Has Already Seen 7 Different Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters This Year: NOAA

      The numbers come as the nation has experienced 60 such disasters in the past three years, the most in that timeframe since record-keeping began in 1980.

      Olivia Rosane
      May 10, 2023

      Seven different billion-dollar or more extreme weather events struck the U.S. during the first four months of 2023.

      That's one of the "notable" findings from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) April State of the Climate report, released Monday.

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      'Abnormal' Sea Level Rise in US South Making Hurricanes More Devastating, Study Shows

      "If you have a hurricane now as opposed to the same hurricane 150 years ago, the impacts would be different," said one researcher.

      Julia Conley
      Apr 10, 2023

      A study published Monday in Nature Communications is the latest of several recent reports to detail the rapid rise of sea levels in the southern U.S., which is happening faster than scientists previously realized and has also intensified hurricane damage in coastal cities.

      Scientists from institutions including Tulane University and the National Oceanography Center in the United Kingdom wrote in the study that "mean sea level acceleration" in the U.S. Southeast and Gulf coasts has led to a rate of increase of more than 10 millimeters, or one centimeter, per year since 2010—a rate that is "unprecedented in at least 120 years."

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      Potent Heat-Trapping Methane Emissions Saw 4th-Largest Annual Increase in 2022: NOAA

      "Allowing any new fossil fuel projects, more fracking, and [liquefied natural gas] is an unspeakable climate crime."

      Julia Conley
      Apr 07, 2023

      Driven primarily by human activities including fossil fuel extraction, methane levels in the atmosphere had their fourth-largest annual increase in 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday.

      Scientists detected 1,911.9 parts per billion (ppb) of methane in the atmosphere last year, indicating a rise of 14 ppb. The level rose by 17.75 ppb in 2021 and 15.20 ppb the previous year.

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