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Dec 31, 2011

Our Weather On Steroids: The Mind-Boggling Climate Disasters Of 2011 | ThinkProgress

Haase - 2012 is expected to bring continued hard conditions...2011 brought the most billion-dollar climate disasters to the United States ever, piling history-making events on top of each other to catastrophic results...Nationwide, more than 6,000 heat records were broken this year. On average, the U.S. has three or four events every year that are considered major natural disasters. But, this year, there were at least fourteen billion-dollar disasters. Damages are expected to exceed $53 billion.

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