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US sets new record for billion-dollar climate disasters in single year. With still four months remaining, the U.S. has had 23 ‘extreme weather events’ totaling almost $60 billion in damages.

Gloria Oladipo in New York and agency Mon, September 11, 2023 at 4:12 PM CDT The Guardian

With four months of 2023 still left, the US has set a record for the most natural disasters in a single year that have cost $1bn or more, as fires, floods and ferocious winds were among deadly events experts warn are being turbo-charged by the climate crisis.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) announced on Monday that there have already been 23 extreme weather events in the US this year that have cost at least $1bn. The current figure surpasses the record of 22 such events set in 2020.

So far, the total cost of disasters in 2023 is more than $57.6bn, according to Noaa.

The record figure does not include major disasters such Tropical Storm Hilary last month, as the cost of damage is still being totaled, Adam Smith, the Noaa applied climatologist and economist who tracks the billion-dollar disasters, told the Associated Press. Hilary brought life-threatening flooding and rainfall to the US south-west, leaving thousands of people without power.

Smith said the increase in expensive weather events was caused by a rise in the number of natural disasters and more communities being built in risk-prone locations.

“Exposure plus vulnerability plus climate change is supercharging more of these into billion-dollar disasters,” Smith said.

Eight new billion-dollar disasters were added to the list in an update last month. The Hawaii wildfires that killed at least 115 people on Maui were added, with damages there projected to cost upwards of $5.5bn. Hurricane Idalia also caused more than $1bn in damage, as the category 3 hurricane devastated Florida at the end of August.

Other events listed by Noaa included severe summer weather, including a Minnesota hailstorm and storms in the north-east, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.

“This year a lot of the action has been across the center states, north central, south and south-eastern states,” Smith.

Experts have long pointed out that climate disasters and extreme weather create exceptionally large costs for local governments.

US weather warning: Hurricane Margot forms in Atlantic as THREE mega storms head for America

Story by Nathan Rao GB News September 12, 2023

SIMMERING ocean waters have plunged America’s hurricane season into ‘unknown territory’ as a battalion of mega-storms assembles in the Atlantic.

As Hurricane Lee continues its path towards the eastern seaboard, another hurricane – Margot ­– and a third potential storm have lined up in its wake.

The US National Hurricane Centre (NOAA) is watching Lee and newly formed Hurricane Margot in the mid-Atlantic, and a tropical disturbance ­– an organised pattern of thunderstorms in a hurricane zone with the potential to develop into a full-scale storm ­– off the west coast of Africa.

Margot, currently whipping up winds of 80mph, is expected to strengthen over the coming days to 90mph driven by sea waters steaming at an unusually high 28C.

It comes as Hurricane Lee, which was downgraded to a tropical storm at the weekend, underwent a sudden resurgence to a category-3 hurricane.

Jim Dale, US weather correspondent and meteorologist for British Weather Services, said: “We are now in unknown territory as to how these things forming in the Atlantic are going to materialise over the coming days.

“The warming of the ocean waters will fuel these systems, but it is difficult to predict exactly what they are going to do, whether they form into more severe storms and what track they take.

“After Lee there is Margot and another system that has formed, and it will be the high pressure over the US which determines, if these storms head to the US, how far they get inland and what impact they have.

“At the moment, it is helping to keep them at bay.”

Increasing climatic temperatures leading to hotter oceans is thought to be behind an unusually active 2023 hurricane season.

In addition, storms are feared to be unusually potent, fuelled up by energy and moisture in the tropical waters.

The National Hurricane Centre said that Margot could hit 100mph in the next day as its ‘inner core’ intensifies over tropical waters.

A spokesman said: “Margot has continued to become better organized over the past several hours.

“Global models indicate that the upper-level tropospheric flow over Margot should be conducive for some more strengthening during the next 36 hours or so, with diffluent anticyclonic winds aloft over the system.

“The official intensity forecast is about the same as the previous one and remains close to the model consensus.”

Hurricane Lee has once again roared into life threatening the eastern coast with a colossal sea surge and damaging winds.

The furious tempest has once again built into a ‘major hurricane’ hurtling with winds of 120mph towards Puerto Rico.

Bermuda, Canada and north-east America are all on alert for ‘dangerous’ tides and rip-currents.

Chris DeWeese spokesperson for The Weather Channel (IBM) said: “After weakening over the weekend and undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle, Hurricane Lee has restrengthened into a major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph.

“The storm is forecast to move to the north of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic before atmospheric conditions cause it to take a northward turn over the western Atlantic around the middle of the week.

“Regardless of where it tracks over the next several days, the hurricane will send dangerous high surf and rip currents to the US East Coast all week.”

Last week, more than 60 million Americans were under heat alerts, an extreme weather event that cities have struggled to allocate funding towards.

Experts say the US has to do more to adapt to increased disasters as they are only projected to get worse.

“The climate has already changed, and neither the built environment nor the response systems are keeping up with the change,” the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Craig Fugate said.

The increase in weather disasters is consistent with what climate scientists have long been saying, along with a possible boost this year from the natural El Niño phenomenon, the University of Arizona climate scientist Katharine Jacobs said.

“Adding more energy to the atmosphere and the oceans will increase intensity and frequency of extreme events,” Jacobs said. “Many of this year’s events are very unusual and in some cases unprecedented.”

Smith added that he had thought the 2020 record would last for a long time because the $20bn cost of disasters that year smashed the old record of $16bn.

It didn’t, and Smith says he no longer believes new records will last long, either.

The Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field called the trend in billion-dollar disasters “very troubling”.

“But there are things we can do to reverse the trend,” Field said. “If we want to reduce the damages from severe weather, we need to accelerate progress on both stopping climate change and building resilience.”

The Associated Press contributed reporting

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A. (7) Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask (7) God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.

. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).

. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).

B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that (7) Jesus Christ is who He claimed to (7) be; that He was both fully God (7) and fully man and that we are (7) saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. (7) Put your trust in Him as your (7) only hope of salvation. Become a son (7) or daughter of God by receiving Christ. (7777777) 7×7

. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).

C. Call upon His name, Confess (7) with your heart and with your lips (7) that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.

. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).

. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).

. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).

. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).

. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).

. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).

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. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).

. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).

. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).

. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).

True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:

 Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”

Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.