Weather disasters over past five decades 'have increased five-fold' – BBC News

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The number of weather-related disasters to hit the world has increased five-fold over the past 50 years, says the World Meteorological Organisation.

However, the number of deaths because of the greater number of storms, floods and droughts has fallen sharply.

Scientists say that climate change, more extreme weather and better reporting are behind the rise in these extreme events. But improvements to warning systems have helped limit the number of deaths.

As global temperatures have risen in recent decades, there has been a significant uptick in the number of disasters related to weather and water extremes.

In the 50 years between 1970 and 2019, there were more than 11,000 such disasters, according to a new atlas from the WMO that charts the scale of these events.

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  1. What a load of baloney the climate is forever changing and it always will. At present we are in an inter glacial what we need to look at is what we will do when the ice comes back because as sure as the the sun rises in the east that is what is going to happen. When the ice does come back it will make parts of the world inhospitable and when that happens …. well ….

  2. Nothing will change greed and destruction. The world's climate has never remained the same nor will it. The world's population of humans has never yet stopped increasing. 2021 has seen to date in the history of plant earth the most amount of humans living in river flood plains, valleys and on the edge of coast lines…. So go figure 🤔

  3. And yet the number of people dying as a direct result of the climate has decreased 99% over the last century. Isn’t human ingenuity a wonderful thing?

  4. The comfort of believing is all that's left it's in Allah's hands,we invite the world to Islam and the signs of the day of judgement we are going to witness the truth, world in death is truth why? Because of the answer to tell your heart and if you have never find the conclusive answer you say the wrong thing then you end up with heart problems all over the truth we invite y'all to Islam for y'all hearts to open up and the problems surrounding what is right to say so the truth don't call you a lier a magical word world when pain conquering world ma Sha Allah , from Allah we came and to him is the return, try it on your sorrows we want to teach y'all how it cheers up the heart try it ma Sha Allah from Allah we came and to him is the return y'all hearts going to cure even if they nuke the places

  5. Ma Sha Allah the world didn't take heed and not taking heed that production has to stop so we could break down the energy we sent up does come down, the climate is like a run away train billing up speed , it's going to crash to slow down,hide up all the gas and flameables , world I'm not nastro damus disasters is on our door steps,free up the money let the people buy out the food no might or power except by Allah

  6. Live on the coast, still waiting for some sea level change. How about the elite and global corporations foot the bill? Ah the little guy has to pay them to clean up their mess, of course!

  7. Who was keeping track for the previous billion years? As human populations grow to 7 billion+ of course there is more damage. Fires, floods and super storms have been happening before humans.

  8. THE SNARE THAT HOLDS THOSE ENSNARED FOR THE DAY OF WRATH IS ABOUT TO BE SPRUNG
    IT SHALL HAPPEN AS FAST AS LIGHTNING .THE MASSES SHALL BE CAUGHT IN IT & SUFFER GREAT DESTRUCTION & MISERY & FIND NO ESCAPE ! ONLY THE LORD JESUS CAN SNARE PROOF YOU. ~Maranatha~

  9. World: Floods in Germany, China, Britain, New Zealand and America caused by Global Warming.

    US: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." D.Trump

    Native: "Your kids can name more KPop groups than they can types of native trees." Sean Sherman

    China: "Ecology is a resource, wealth and treasure." Xi Jinping

  10. "Self interest is for the past; common interest is for the future." D. Attenborough

    Lu'sè Changcheng (Great green wall) can be seen from space.

    A fire from a US gender reveal party was seen from space.

    Start using goats to clear forest brush and start dobbing in Fire Karens.

  11. all the oil we used cant put it back we drilled for to long & still use fuel in our cars world wide as more more cars have numbered like plane's bikes boats lorrys buses trains diggers etc coal power plants wild fire all give of high co2 levels!!! oil needs reducing fast!

  12. I understand that individuals are responsible for their part in climate change due to supply and demand (and price too). However, governments around the globe have more power to help us avoid irreversible changes. For example, changing laws, taxing for specific wastes (and exceptions when recycling etc). At the end of the day, we all live on the same planet, so it’s everyone’s problem to do something. .

    That’s just how I feel. 😭

  13. Climate change is a hoax. Just politics. Yes we have a change in climate but a lot of it is due to wild development and greed. Real estate, agricultural industry etc have increasingly be the cause of disaster …

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