Sentences with phrase «costs of heatwaves»

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Events such as the 2003 heatwave, the 2010 heatwave / wildfire event, and the 2012 drought — to name just a few of the most well - known — have cost on the order of 100,000 premature deaths and $ 100 billion in economic losses.

Natural disasters such as floods and heatwaves occur almost daily across the world, double the frequency of 20 years ago, says a United Nations report, Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters.

From increasingly frequent and severe types of extreme events that include heatwaves, coastal flooding and heavier downpours, the costs of climate change are becoming tangible throughout the country.

Heat cost Australia nearly A$ 7 billion in 2014, which is bad news given climate forecasts of hotter and more frequent heatwaves.

Logically, it would be pointless to use these data to project the costs of future heatwaves, since there is scarce evidence of any change.

Floods, bushfires and this year's scorching summer heatwave have raised awareness of the dangers of climate change, but an «infantile» debate over the validity of the science has cost Australia precious time, according to a key Climate Commission expert.

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.