World hammered by record 50 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2020 » Yale Climate Connections
Costly thunderstorms, hurricanes, wildfires, and devastating monsoon rains besieged the planet last year. National Guard troops respond in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Laura was Earth’s most expensive tropical cyclone of 2020, with $18.2 billion in damage. (Photo credit: Josiah Pugh) Earth was besieged by a record 50 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2020, the most such disasters ever recorded after adjusting for inflation, said insurance broker Aon (formerly called Aon Benfield) in its annual report issued January 25. The previous record was 46 billion-dol...