The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will no longer update its widely cited list of weather and climate disasters that cause billions of dollars in damage, in yet another example of the Trump administration's hostility towards climate science. For over fifty years, NOAA has tracked extreme weather events, ranging from tornados, to hurricanes, to droughts, that have wreaked billions of dollars in damages. The database has provided the public, media institutions, and scientists a vital way of tracking the human and economic toll of our ever-shifting climate, with its unique pool of data that other institutions don't have access […]