Flash floods in “informal settlements.” Look at flooding in poor sections of Durban, South Africa, this year, said report co-author and climate scientist Maarten van Aalst, director of the International Red Cross and Crescent Climate Centre in the Netherlands. In each case scientists were able to give a recent example: The 594-page report’s 20-page summary highlighted five case studies of climate risks from worsening extreme weather that scientists said will be more of a problem and how governments could deal with them. Unprecedented record heat hit Northern California in September and 104 degrees in England (40 degrees Celsius) earlier this summer. weather damage since in just the billion-dollar extremes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In just the United States alone, the number of weather disasters that cost at least $1 billion in damage - adjusted for inflation - went from an average of 8.4 a year in the decade before the report was issued to 14.3 a year after the report came out, with more than a trillion dollars in U.S. I think the sad lesson is the damage has to occur very close to home or else nobody pays attention now.” Some people and governments listened, others didn’t. And the world proceeded to do what it usually does. “The report was exactly what a climate report should do: Warn us about the future in time for us to adapt before the worst stuff happens. “The report was clairvoyant,” said report co-author Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University climate scientist. In a report that changed the way the world thinks about the harms of global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on extreme events, disasters and climate change warned in 2012: “A changing climate leads to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of extreme weather and climate events, and can result in unprecedented extreme weather and climate events.” It said there would be more heat waves, worsening droughts, increasing downpours causing floods and stronger and wetter tropical cyclones and simply nastier disasters for people. But it was also the warning and forecast for the future issued by top United Nations climate scientists more than 10 years ago. Wild weather worldwide getting stronger and more frequent, resulting “in unprecedented extremes.”
Drought and famine in poorer parts of Africa as dry spells worsen across the globe.
Devastating floods, some in poorer unprepared areas. Record high temperatures in urban Europe as heat waves bake the planet more often.
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