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2. Extreme weather - Wikipedia

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   The main types of extreme weather include heat waves, cold waves and heavy precipitation or storm events, such as tropical cyclones. The effects of extreme weather events are economic costs, loss of human lives, droughts, floods, landslides. Severe weather is a particular type of extreme weather which poses risks to life and property.

3. Extreme event attribution - Wikipedia

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   Extreme event attribution, also known as attribution science, is a relatively new field of study in meteorology and climate science that tries to measure how ongoing climate change directly affects extreme events (rare events), for example extreme weather events.

4. Effects of climate change - Wikipedia

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   Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...

5. Warming causes more extreme rain, not snow, over ... - AOL

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   A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as ...

6. Climate change - Wikipedia

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   [239] [240] Climate change increases the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events. [ 240 ] [ 241 ] It can affect transmission of infectious diseases , such as dengue fever and malaria . [ 238 ] [ 239 ] According to the World Economic Forum , 14.5 million more deaths are expected due to climate change by 2050.

7. Causes of climate change - Wikipedia

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   Drivers of climate change from 1850–1900 to 2010–2019. Future global warming potential for long lived drivers like carbon dioxide emissions is not represented. The scientific community has been investigating the causes of climate change for decades.

8. Severe weather - Wikipedia

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   Severe weather is one type of extreme weather, which includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather and is by definition rare for that location or time of the year. [5] Due to the effects of climate change, the frequency and intensity of some of the extreme weather events are increasing, for example, heatwaves and droughts. [6]: 9

9. 2019 in climate change - Wikipedia

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   In January, the World Economic Forum listed top 10 risks by likelihood (extreme weather events as #1, failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation as #2, man-made environmental damage and disasters as #6) and by impact (failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation as #2, extreme weather events as #3, man-made environmental damage ...