NOAA Billion-Dollar Disasters retirement + Mauna Loa defunding proposal

NOAA NCEI, "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" archive, ncei.noaa.gov (403 disasters / ~$2.9T in damages since 1980). NOAA Notice of Changes, May 2025 (database retired). Washington Post, "NOAA will stop tracking billion-dollar weather disasters," May 8, 2025. Eos, "Proposed NOAA Budget Calls for $0 for Climate Research," 2025 (FY2026 elimination of NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, including Mauna Loa's 1958-onward atmospheric CO₂ record).

Use: E-0018, C-0012, C-0019.

Original whitepaper reference: [32]