A landmark decade of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters

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Review author Adam Smith’s report “2010-2019: A landmark decade of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters” available in the Week Three readings. Answer the following questions with supporting data from the report:

a) Are the numbers and costs of  disasters increasing or decreasing? Why?

b) Which two types of natural disasters have  skewed the total distribution of extreme weather costs? What is this attributed to?

c) What has dominated the  distribution of damage from U.S. billion-dollar disaster events from 1980-2019? Explain the data associated with this damage.

d) What regions of the United States have suffered the highest cumulative damage costs? What is this attributed to?