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"2011 Natural Disasters Cost a Record $265 Billion" [1]

"Politicians might not believe in climate change, but insurance companies do. They track disasters, and it turns out that disasters just in the first six months of this year already cost the world more than any other year of disasters on record."

Sarah Laskow reports for Grist July 15, 2011. [2]

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
International [5]
Public [6]
Source: Grist [2], 07/18/2011
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/2011-natural-disasters-cost-record-265-billion [2] http://www.grist.org/list/2011-07-15-2011-climate-disasters-cost-a-record-265-billion [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81