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As warming temperatures intensified precipitation over the last 30 years, floods costs have risen by $2.5 billion

Climate change caused one-third of historical flood damages In a new study, Stanford researchers report that intensifying precipitation contributed one-third of the financial costs of flooding in the United States over the past three decades, totaling almost $75 billion of the estimated $199 billion in flood damages from 1988 to 2017. The research, published Jan. 11 in the journal  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, helps to resolve a long-standing debate about the role of climate change in the rising costs of flooding and provides new insight into the financial costs of globa...

MicroClimates: The climate stories we'll be following in 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Pier 14 along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, December 30, 2020.Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle Welcome to MicroClimates, The Chronicle’s climate change newsletter. If someone forwarded you this email, you can sign up here. Looking back, looking forward New year, still changing climate. As we start a new year, I wanted to take a look at some recent Bay Area and California climate change stories that will continue to develop in 2021. Hot year, even hotter autumn 2020 has tied 2016 for ...

As warming temperatures intensified precipitation over the last 30 years, floods costs have risen by $2.5 billion

Placing a dollar value on the contribution of climate change to storm damage has been tricky—until now.