U.S. to shatter record for billion-dollar climate disasters in 2020
From social justice protests to politics to the pandemic, 2020 has been unprecedented in any number of ways. And although it didn’t always receive top billing, the climate crisis and the extreme weather that comes along with it also escalated to levels not experienced before. The U.S. experienced major disasters like the western wildfires, a record-breaking hurricane season and the mid-summer Midwest derecho that caused extensive damage….The vast majority of wildfires happened in the western states, where California endured 5 of its 6 largest fires on record…