Floods, fires, freezes: how 2021 made Joe Biden a climate crisis president

In September, Joe Biden stood in a ravaged area of Manville, New Jersey, after Hurricane Ida brought hundred-year flooding. Joe Biden embraces a person as he tours a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Ida in Manville, New Jersey, in September. According to Noaa, the last five years of climate and weather disaster events have comprised nearly one-third of the disaster cost total of the last 42 years. The climate disaster year began in January, when northern California experienced flash flooding and severe winter storms as a “bomb cyclone” and an “atmospheric river” hit the Sierra Nevadas and surrounding areas. People wade through water in Barataria, Louisiana, in August after Hurricane Ida made landfall.