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Extreme Weater Events

• The human cost of disasters: an overview of the last 20 years (2000-2019)

  <p>7,348 major disaster events had occurred between 2000 and 2019, claiming 1.23 lives, affecting 4.2 billion people and costing the global economy some $2.97 trillion.Of this, China (577 events) and the United States of America (U.S.) (467 events) reported the highest number of disaster events ,followed by India (321 events). Climate change is to be blamed for the doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years says the report.</p>

  • 13/10/2020

  • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Extreme Weater Events
    • India
    • Global

• Risk of extreme weather events higher if Paris Agreement goals aren't met

  The individual commitments made by parties of the United Nations Paris Agreement are not enough to fulfill the agreement's overall goal of limiting global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius

  • 16/02/2018

  • PHYS
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Extreme Weater Events
    • COP 21 (Paris)
    • Global Warming
    • IPCC

• Will half a degree make a difference? Robust projections of indices of Mean and Extreme Climate in Europe Under 1.5°C, 2°C, and 3°C Global Warming

  <p>Based on high-resolution models, we investigate the change in climate extremes and impact-relevant indicators over Europe under different levels of global warming. We specifically assess the robustness

  • 19/01/2018

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • • Climate Change
    • Emission Targets
    • Europe
    • Global Warming
    • Extreme Weater Events
    • Climate Impacts
    • Rainfall Pattern

• Natural disasters increasingly linked to climate change, new report warns

  Extreme weather events such as Hurricane Harvey are increasingly being linked to climate change in scientific studies Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme weather

  • 12/12/2017

  • Independent (United Kingdom)
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Natural Disasters
    • Extreme Weater Events
    • Droughts
    • Floods
    • Heat Waves
    • Syria
    • Storms

• Tanzania: Scores of Nomadic Families Impacted

  Arusha — Hundreds of families of nomadic pastoralists living in the lowland areas of Arumeru District are among scores of herdsmen heavily impacted by climate change, a phenomenon associated with drought

  • 04/07/2017

  • All Africa
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Droughts
    • Livestock
    • Rainfall
    • Extreme Weater Events
    • Africa
    • Tanzania

• Climate change brings more Sahel storms

  Climate change has already made a difference to life in the West African Sahel, the arid belt of land stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea which separates the Sahara desert from the African savanna.

  • 09/05/2017

  • Eco Business
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Global Warming
    • Africa
    • Burkina Faso
    • Storms
    • Floods
    • Fossil Fuels
    • Heat Waves
    • Rainfall
    • Droughts
    • Extreme Weater Events

• Global warming precipitation accumulation increases above the current-climate cutoff scale

  <p>Large accumulations of rainfall over a precipitation event can impact human infrastructure. Unlike precipitation intensity distributions, probability distributions for accumulations at first drop slowly

  • 23/01/2017

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • • Global Warming
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Science
    • Rainfall Pattern
    • Extreme Weater Events

• Weather-related disasters occur almost everyday, UN reports

  Ninety per cent of the disasters that occurred during the past decade have been caused by floods, storms, heat waves and other weather-related events, according to a UN report. In a report released on

  • 24/11/2015

  • International Business Times
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Extreme Weater Events
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Floods
    • Droughts
    • India
    • China
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Philippines
    • Indonesia
• 

  Most populated areas of India and China at greater risk, says report

  Weather-related disasters have grown more frequent over the past 20 years, killing more than 6 lakh people, the UN said today, issuing a further call for nations to strike a landmark deal on climate change.

  • 24/11/2015

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Climate Change
    • India
    • China
    • COP 21 (Paris)
    • Extreme Weater Events
    • Green House Gases
    • Floods
    • Natural Disasters
    • Climate Impacts