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NBC News: 2011 a record-breaking year for US natural disasters

Twelve extreme weather events this year have each cost $1 billion or more

December 2011 - Tom Costello of NBC News reports on how 2011 was a record-breaking year for natural disasters in terms of lives lost and property damaged. Twelve US natural disasters in 2011 have caused over $52 billion dollars in damages.

His report in this NBC News video shows examples of the massive flooding, droughts, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, and extreme climate change that have destroyed thousands of homes and towns in the United States. More than 1,000 Americans have died, and entire US towns have been destroyed, leaving those who have survived without a place to live.

According to Costello, “The first five months of 2011 had already proven to be record breakers. It only got worse. In all, more than 3,000 monthly weather records have been broken so far this year.”

And the forecast looks even more grim: According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Deputy Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, “Everything we know about the climate system and its physics say that we will see more frequent extreme events of greater severity and intensity.”

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NBC News: 2011 a record-breaking year for US natural disasters

Twelve extreme weather events this year have each cost $1 billion or more