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Three different reports released Monday, though not directly connected, paint a picture of a U.S. in 2021 struggling with global warming. A report from the Rhodium Group said that in 2021 America’s emissions of heat-trapping gas rebounded from the first year of the pandemic at a faster rate than the economy as a whole. Experts expected U.S. emissions to increase from the steep 2020 dive, but how big it jumped worried them.
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And last year was the deadliest weather year for the contiguous United States since 2011 with 688 people dying in 20 different billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that combined cost at least $145 billion, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday.
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That was the second-highest number of billion-dollar weather disasters — which are adjusted for inflation with records going back to 1980— and third costliest. Last year was also the fourth warmest year on record in the United States, according to another NOAA report.