Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

Positives

• This resource provides real world, current data on the economic repercussions of climate change. 
• Analyzing the economic impact of climate change can be an effective way to garner support for climate action by individuals motivated by finances.

Additional Prerequisites

• Learners should be familiar with the connections between global warming and extreme weather events.

Differentiation

• Consider developing SAT/ACT practice questions on proportions and ratios using the data provided. For example, challenge students to examine decades during which the most damage occurred.
• Before examining the data, have students predict the most costly decade or event type and explain their reasoning.
• Download the data available to have students run statistical analyses for math, science, or statistics classes.
  
• Additional resources that relate to the cost of climate change are The Cost of Carbon and Climate Economics.