Humans have paid a high price because of these extreme weather events, with lives lost to the natural disasters. During the five heat periods this summer, the estimated excess mortality in England was 2,803 for those aged 65 and over, the highest since the introduction of a heatwave plan in...
Many of the current questions about preparedness for extreme weather events in coming decades are, however, difficult to answer with assets that have been developed by climate science to answer longer-term questions about climate change. Capacities for projecting exposures to climate-related extreme ...
In terms of economic costs, it could be very high, since climate-related extreme events in EEA member countries account for more than 400 billion euros (429.82 billion U.S. dollars) of economic losses since 1980. The report also said that mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into other ...
their ability to respond to catastrophicclimate-relatedevents. They can provide physical shelter to the populations most vulnerable to these events and foster resilient networks of people who can more quickly recover. Given the escalating frequency of extreme weather events in theUnited Statesdue to cl...
The concept of climate refugees emerged as a critical issue with the increasing frequency and intensity of climate-related events such as rising sea levels, desertification, and extreme weather patterns. These changes threaten the v...
Mindful of the human tendency to discount the importance of events seen as occurring far in the future, many scientists and science writers have come to regard newsworthy weather- and climate-related extreme events as “teachable moments” that serve to illustrate the importance and immediacy of ...
However, some other extreme events are not necessarily related to climate change including delayed rain season in spring Nigeria, heaviest rain in India, and extremely cold weather both in northeastern United States and Canada. Teams from National Climate Center (NCC) of China Meteorological Administra...
James Hansen, arguably the world's most famous climate scientist (and a bogeyman to climate skeptics), contends the link between extreme heat events and global warming is now all but irrefutable. The evidence, he says, comes not from computer simulations but from weather observations themselves....
The emerging science of extreme weather event attribution, which analyses the relationship between anthropo- genic emissions to the atmosphere and specific extreme weather events - is focused on understanding the causes of that baseline shift in climate and related specific extreme weather event ...
Daniel Zhao, M.D., from Maimonides Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues evaluated how individual factors and neighborhoodsocial cohesionare associated with negative mental health effects of exposure to extreme weather events. The analysis included data from the 2021 California Health Intervie...