Climate change

Inside Climate News -  The 10 deadliest weather disasters since 2004, including three tropical cyclones, four heatwaves, two floods and a drought, killed at least 570,000 people, and a new study shows how all of them were intensified by global warming, “caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal and deforestation.” In a press briefing on the new study, by World Weather Attribution, an international research group, the authors emphasized that the total death toll is a major underestimate. Many heat-related deaths, possibly running into the millions, are not reported officially and don’t show up in the International Disaster Database, especially in poorer countries that are most vulnerable to high temperatures.

An international monitoring project established at the time of the Paris Agreement sees a measurable increase in exposure to disease and dangerous conditions due to climate change.