Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 1/25/18


The year 2017 was a climate record breaker, threatening the economic future of North Carolina. It was the hottest year on record for North Carolina and the hottest year on record without an El Niño for the entire globe.  Natural disasters such as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the California wildfires inflicted a record $306 billion in damages across the United States. Three of the five most expensive hurricanes in United States history made landfall in 2017. 

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