[Insert, 11:30 p.m. Justin Gillis filed an excellent report tonight on factors behind
severe weather around the world, stressing that El Niño is hardly the only player: «This winter, a climate pattern called the Arctic Oscillation is also keeping cold air bottled up in the high north, allowing heat and moisture to accumulate in the middle latitudes.»]
Not exact matches
There, as in so many places
around the
world, the prime driver of losses in
severe weather calamities is poverty or settlement in danger zones.
The statement includes a list and description of major
weather and climate events
around the
world in 2013, such as Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) which devastated parts of the Philippines, and the
severe floods in the Alps and various European countries.
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.
Severe weather variability has affected harvests
around the
world but the many of the tools to enhance food security are within our grasp.
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