In the last two decades, natural disaster costs worldwide went from about $ 100 billion per year to almost twice that amount. (fivethirtyeight.com)
This research is a next step to enhance the value and usability of estimated disaster costs given data limitations and inherent complexities. (ncdc.noaa.gov)
There have been more heat waves and intense precipitation, but these phenomena are not significant drivers of disaster costs. (fivethirtyeight.com)