Earth warms up causing extreme weather phenomena

According to a reporter at the United Nations, on March 29, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that global warming has led to changes in weather phenomena. extreme since 1950.

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The IPCC's 592 page special report on extreme weather events emphasizes that global warming can greatly increase cold days and nights and also reduce the number of warm days and nights globally.

Many parts of the world population are living on the brink of disasters because of the increasing frequency and intensity of weather events in many regions around the globe. Just a small increase in the frequency or intensity of these phenomena that exceed or exceed the limit points of infrastructure can also cause serious damage to the current infrastructure system.

The report predicts that the maximum wind speed of tropical tornadoes will increase even though it may be uneven on the ocean areas, but the frequency of these tornadoes may be reduced or basically change.

IPCC scientists also forecast that global warming also causes other changes in extreme weather phenomena such as the increase in hot waves and record temperatures in the world as well as heavy rains. dreaded in Alaska, Canada, North and Central Europe, East Africa and North Asia. Countries around the world have to experience extreme weather events and natural disasters are now a threat.

Hurricane Katrina in 2005 engulfed the entire city of New Orleans in the United States, showing that developed countries are also unable to avoid serious natural disasters due to the risk of social vulnerability and improper disaster prevention.

Property damage due to hurricanes and rising sea levels in US coastal areas may increase by 20% by 2030, even doubling by 2080. Damage due to extreme weather events The global average now reaches 80 billion USD.

General Secretary of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Michel Jarraud and UNEP Director General Achim Steiner affirmed that the IPCC Special Report shaped the new global challenge of events Extreme weather and climate as a central issue of national and global policy-making processes.