The results reveal that the majority of states assessed are performing at moderate to poor levels, with the lowest states located in regions that are most heavily
impacted by extreme weather events.
Travel Insurance Information for Cyclone Debbie The following information is for those concerned or
affected by the extreme weather events caused by Cyclone Debbie in Queensland from 27 March 2017.
Pakistan Today: Despite severe flooding in 2011, Pakistan managed to drop itself from first last year, to third position this year in the league table for countries that were worst
hit by extreme weather events in 2011, according to a «climate risk index 2013» published here on Tuesday.
Oklahoma has been battered
by extreme weather events in recent years and much of the discussion focused on adaptation toward maximizing benefits and minimizing losses for the state.
Although Pres. Donald Trump signed a disaster relief bill that forgave $ 16 billion of its debt, the NFIP continues to be
steamrolled by extreme weather events, including the recent series of back - to - back nor» easters that have clobbered the Northeast.
This explains the strange phenomenon seen over and over again, where people who are
victimized by extreme weather events that are later linked to climate change, still vote for climate change deniers in elections, or write letters to newspapers against climate science.
Masters pointed out that at this point 4 out of 5 households in the US have been
influenced by extreme weather events recently though not necessarily to this life - altering extent.
I mean: Central Euroipe has been hit
by extreme weather events year round for many years in a row now, hitting low - lying farmlands first and foremost.
Social resilience — a fundamental shift From Me to We — can be thought of as the capacity for individuals to engage in and sustain positive interpersonal relationships that allow them to work constructively with others to withstand and recover from physical, economic, psycho - social, ecological and other stresses such as those
posed by extreme weather events and other climate impacts.
People
affected by an extreme weather event (e.g., the extremely hot summer in Europe in 2003, or the heavy rainfall in Mumbai, India in July 2005) often ask whether human influences on the climate are responsible for the event.
Global economic losses
caused by extreme weather events have risen to nearly $ 200 billion a year over the last decade and look set to increase further as climate change worsens, a report by the World Bank showed on Monday.
Coastal flooding caused
by extreme weather events and sea level rise is of growing global concern.
As the Georgetown Climate Center put it: «There is a significant upward trend in the insured losses caused
by extreme weather events.
Other wildlife that spend winters on the Arctic archipelago like the Svalbard rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea), the sibling vole (Microtus levis), and the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) are undoubtedly affected
by these extreme weather events, but researchers focused on the wild Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus).