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23 storms, zero hurricanes, $115 billion anyway

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Jul 22, 2026

US Weather Costs

Washington froze $17 billion in disaster aid

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Jul 22, 2026

US Weather Costs

FEMA's piggy bank hits empty: a $16 billion hole

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Jul 22, 2026



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Utilities

Summer of sweat: cooling bills hit a record $792

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Jul 22, 2026

Utilities

The $25 billion tab nobody can pay

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Jul 22, 2026

Utilities

Server farms send you the bill: $23 billion and counting

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Jul 22, 2026



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Texas Floods, Then and Now
On July 4, 2025 the Guadalupe tore through Kerr County, TX. Over a billion in damage and 20x more in economic loss. A year later, the river matched, and at some gauges topped, last year's crest. The 2026 bill isn't in yet, but it likely isn't smaller.

$1.1B in damage — and barely 12% insured

Residential flood damage · Cotality / Moody's

The yardstick: last year ran $18–22 billion

Total economic loss · AccuWeather

Big Oil booked 14× the flood's bill in one quarter

$15.9B Q1 profit · Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP

Your premium's up. So is their income — $135.9B

Insurer net income · Insurance Journal

$149.8M to keep Congress from asking

Oil & gas lobbying · OpenSecrets


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The 35°C wet-bulb line: the temperature where sweat stops working

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Jul 22, 2026

Weather Is Coming

$1.2 million to insure one tanker through the Strait of Hormuz

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Jul 22, 2026

Weather Is Coming

By 2050 the Persian Gulf hits temperatures you die in within six hours

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Jul 22, 2026

Weather Is Coming

Pentagon called climate an 'immediate risk' — then defunded the programs

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Jul 22, 2026

Weather Is Coming

32% of global cropland in severe drought every year by 2040

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Jul 22, 2026

Weather Is Coming

Poorest counties lose 20% of income per degree of warming

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Jul 22, 2026

Weather Is Coming

Insurance non-renewals: Louisiana 58%, Michigan 48%, California 16%

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Jul 22, 2026

Weather Is Coming

640 billion work hours lost to heat in 2024 — $1.09 trillion

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Jul 22, 2026

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Jul 22, 2026

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Incoming Front: Canada's Secondhand Smoke

Ontario's wildfires don't stop at the border — and neither does their cost.

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Jul 22, 2026

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Incoming Front: The New Food Shock

Beef, fruit, coffee, olive oil — the climate food bill is already here.

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Jul 22, 2026

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Incoming Front: Strait Into Storms

The war premium resets. The climate premium compounds.

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