Sentences with phrase «by extreme weather around the world»

Online, more than 11,000 Global Citizens have called on world leaders to help the millions of people affected by extreme weather around the world in the past year.

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That girl - narrated backstory at the beginning sounds like it would have made a more interesting piece of thorny geopolitical sci - fi than the CGI glop we get instead: How do 18 countries, led by the U.S. and China, come together to battle horrible climate change effects by installing a galactic safety net of thousands of satellites with the ability to balance extreme weather conditions around the world?

A new initiative has been launched by the UN to better understand and quantify the impact of extreme weather events around the world.

Hansen said increased warming caused by man's use of fossil fuels would lead to extreme weather events and presented a danger to millions around the world.

Carbon Brief mapped studies of extreme weather events around the world and found that 63 % of those studied were made more likely or more severe by human - caused climate change.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

Meanwhile, a flood of new research has convincingly connected a rise in extreme weather events, especially droughts and heatwaves, to global climate change, and a recent report by the DARA Group and Climate Vulnerability Forum finds that climate change contributes to around 400,000 deaths a year and costs the world 1.6 percent of its GDP, or $ 1.2 trillion.