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‘Do You Really Want to Rebuild at 80?’ Rethinking Where to Retire

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/business/where-to-retire-climate-change.html By  Susan B. Garland , The New York Times.  Excerpt: ...A small but growing number of older people ...are taking climate change into account when choosing a retirement destination, real estate agents and other experts say. Armed with climate studies, many retirees are looking for communities that are less likely to experience extreme weather events, such as wildfires, drought and flooding.... 

Funding needed for climate disasters has risen ‘more than 800%’ in 20 years

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/07/funding-needed-for-climate-disasters-has-risen-more-than-800-in-20-years By Arthur Neslen, The Guardian .  Excerpt: The funding needed by UN climate disaster appeals has soared by more than 800% in 20 years as global heating takes hold. But only about half of it is being met by rich countries, according to a new report by Oxfam. Last year was the third costliest on record for extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and wildfires with total economic costs estimated at $329bn , nearly double the total aid given by donor nations. While poor countries appealed for $63-75bn in emergency humanitarian aid over the last five years, they only received $35-42bn, leaving a shortfall that Oxfam condemned as “piecemeal and painfully inadequate” . 

More than 40 percent of Americans live in counties hit by climate disasters in 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/05/climate-disasters-2021-fires/ By  Sarah Kaplan  and  Andrew Ba Tran , The Washington Post.  Excerpt: As climate-fueled extreme weather intensified last year, more than 80 percent of Americans experienced a heat wave. The impacts of fires and severe storms also spread. ...At least 656 people died amid the onslaught of disasters, media reports and government records show. The cost of the destruction tops $104 billion, according to the  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , even before officials calculate the final toll of wildfires, drought and heat waves in the West. While the Federal Emergency Management Agency identified fewer climate-related disasters in individual counties last year, it declared eight of these emergencies statewide — the most since 1998 — encompassing 135 million people overall.…