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Changes in extreme
weather will require governments to change how they cope with natural
disasters, a new
report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns
Since 1986, the first year the National
Weather Service
reported data on heat - related deaths, more people in the United States have died from heat (3,979) than from any other
weather - related
disaster — more than floods (2,599), tornadoes (2,116) or hurricanes (1,391).
According to a poll conducted by researchers at Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication, four out of five Americans
reported personally experiencing one or more types of extreme
weather or a natural
disaster in 2011, while more than a third were personally harmed either a great deal or a moderate amount by one or more of these events.
«The U.S. [in 2011] experienced a record fourteen
weather - related
disasters each in excess of a billion dollars — and many more
disasters of lesser magnitudes,»
reports the non-profit Climate Science Watch (CSW).
The IPCC wants world leaders to err on the side of caution in preparing their citizens for extreme
weather events that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a
report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and
Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do just that.
Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were hardest hit by
weather disasters in 2012, a
report issued at U.N.
As extreme
weather events likely connected to the planet's warming climate become increasingly common, low - income communities are positioned to suffer the worst consequences during the aftermath of natural
disasters, write the authors of a
report from the Center for American Progress called «One Storm Shy of Despair.»
That, in turn, the
report argues, will help reduce girls» vulnerability to climate change - related
weather disasters.
A recent
report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major
disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other
weather - related events.
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Before interpreting the upward trend in the occurrence of
weather - related
disasters as «completely unprecedented» and «due to global warming», one has to take into account the complexities of
disaster occurrence, human vulnerabilities and statistical
reporting and registering.
A new
report by Environment America finds that federally declared
weather - related
disasters in the United States have affected counties housing 242 million people — or roughly four out of five Americans.
The
report focuses on
weather disasters since 1980 in the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Climate change, caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases humans have emitted, is expected to increase certain types of extreme
weather, leading to more
disasters, according to a
report being assembled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
A new
report from Environment Missouri presents data on U.S. federally - declared
weather disasters from 2006 to 2011, and says climate change will make extreme
weather events like droughts and storms more common — and more severe.
While those natural
disasters in the United States play only a small role in the World Meterological Organization's (WMO)
report on extreme
weather events in 2011, there is a tendency to try to link the underlying
weather patterns to changes in the global climate.
The NOAA
report highlights the extreme costs of climate and
weather disasters despite President Donald Trump and his administration's skepticism — and downright indifference — towards climate policy, from pulling the U.S. out of the Paris agreement to dropping climate change from the list of national security threats.
The Washington Post
reported the study as almost being settled fact, writing «The
disaster was caused by two
weather - related features, extreme humidity and near - stationary low pressure that hovered over the Gulf Coast for days.
The IPCC Special
Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and
Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX), also discusses the relationship between human - caused climate change and various types of extreme
weather events.
Some 87 percent of these
reported disasters (18,200 events), 74 percent of losses ($ 2.8 trillion) and 61 percent of lives lost (1.4 million in total) were caused by
weather extremes.
Economic losses from
weather - and climate - related
disasters have increased... — IPCC, «
Disaster losses», p9, Summary for Policymakers, Special
Report (2012)
The
report is also one of the first of its kind to study how climate change impacts mental health, noting that people «exposed to climate - or
weather - related natural
disasters experience stress reactions and serious mental health consequences, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depressions, and general anxiety.»
For instance, in 2012, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a special
report studying links between climate change and extreme
weather, titled «Managing the risks of extreme events and
disasters to advance climate change adaption».
«Joseph Stromberg
reports at the Smithsonian that if there's one group has an obvious and immediate financial stake in climate change, it's the insurance industry and in recent years, insurance industry researchers who attempt to determine the annual odds of catastrophic
weather - related
disasters say they're seeing something new.
Their
report suggests that a central plank in the global warming argument — that it will result in a big increase in deaths from
weather - related
disasters — is undermined by the facts.
The global
weather - related
disaster losses
reported over the last few decades reflect mainly monetized direct damages to assets, and are unequally distributed.
If the whole trend we find in
weather related
disaster should be caused by
reporting bias, or socio - demographic or economic developments we would expect to find it similarly for the geophysical events.
The frequency of
reported natural
disasters has increased over the past 40 years.19 Three times as many extreme
weather events occurred between 2000 and 2009 as occurred between 1980 and 1989.
This activity
report analyses the financial mechanisms available to both developed and developing countries, and their use, to transfer risks of
weather related
disasters.
A newly released Oxfam
report is blaming global warming for the four-fold increase in the number of
weather - related natural
disasters - primarily floods and storms - in the last two decades, alleging that the number has jumped
Report: Climate change behind rise in
weather disasters.
This
report found, for instance, that the estimates of economic losses from
weather and climate related
disasters have increased, but with large spatial and inter annual variability.
This
report assesses the threats of natural
disasters and aims at developing strategies for the management of extreme
weather events, such as wildfires, floods and droughts.
The
report focuses on
weather disasters since 1980 in the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Climate Change And Natural Disasters Related, Most Americans S
disasters since 1980 in the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Climate Change And Natural
Disasters Related, Most Americans S
Disasters Related, Most Americans Say: Poll.
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The
report pointed to the rising instance of
weather disasters like Hurricane Harvey in 2017.