Climate change in 2025: An era of record heat and rising disasters
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Climate change in 2025: An era of record heat and rising disasters

Live Mint  

Hello and welcome to the first edition of 2025 of Climate Change And You. Climate Change Tracker View Full Image In 2024, extreme weather catastrophes like the Wayanad landslides were a result of climate change. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service confirmed on 10 January that 2024 indeed was the hottest year ever recorded, with the average global temperature exceeding 1.6 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. View Full Image How climate change caused extreme events in 2024. World Weather Attribution, a collaboration of climate science academics from around the world, is an important resource that evaluates data to determine to what extent an extreme weather event is caused by climate change.

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Record hot 2024 was first year to break 1.5C warming threshold, scientists say
4 days, 10 hours ago

Record hot 2024 was first year to break 1.5C warming threshold, scientists say

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service confirmed previous projections that 2024 was the warmest on record globally and the …

What is the latest science telling us about climate change?
1 week ago

What is the latest science telling us about climate change?

The Hindu  

After another record-breaking year for global temperatures in 2024, pressure is rising on policymakers to step up efforts to curb climate change. The last global scientific consensus on the phenomenon was released in 2021 through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but scientists say evidence shows global warming and its impacts have since been unfolding faster than expected. Critical point …

Climate extremes in 2024 wreaked havoc on global water cycle
1 week, 1 day ago

Climate extremes in 2024 wreaked havoc on global water cycle

India Today  

The 2024 Global Water Monitor Report, led by The Australian National University, reveals alarming trends in the global water cycle, driven by unprecedented temperature increases. According to the report, 2024 marked the hottest year on record, with air temperatures over land rising by 1.2 degrees Celsius since the beginning of the century and approximately 2.2 degrees Celsius since the Industrial …

$228 billion lost, 2,000 lives taken: The shocking cost of 10 worst climate disasters of 2024 revealed
2 weeks, 2 days ago

$228 billion lost, 2,000 lives taken: The shocking cost of 10 worst climate disasters of 2024 revealed

Live Mint  

2024 year-ender: Ever wondered what is the economic cost of extreme weather events? Well, the ten worst climate disasters resulted in an estimated damage of over $228 billion worldwide in 2024, a new report revealed. The report titled ‘Counting the Cost 2024: A Year of Climate Breakdown’ by Christian Aid also highlights ten extreme weather events that didn’t rack up …

'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024
2 weeks, 4 days ago

'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024

Raw Story  

From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024. World Weather Attribution, experts on how global warming influences extreme events, said nearly every disaster they analyzed over the past 12 months was intensified by climate change. - Floods - …

Climate change adds 41 extra days of dangerous heat globally in 2024
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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Climate change adds 41 extra days of dangerous heat globally in 2024

India Today  

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024. “The finding is devastating but utterly unsurprising: Climate change did play a role, and often a major role …

Climate change added on average 41 additional days of dangerous heat in 2024
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Climate change added on average 41 additional days of dangerous heat in 2024

New Indian Express  

Climate change contributed to the deaths of at least 3,700 people and the displacement of millions in 26 weather events studied in 2024, an analysis by World Weather Attribution and Climate Central reveals. It’s likely the total number of people killed in extreme weather events intensified by climate change this year is in the tens, or hundreds of thousands," the …

Extreme weather events cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars this year
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Extreme weather events cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars this year

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Extreme weather events in 2024 will ultimately cost Americans more than $500 billion in total …

Yearender 2024: A world altered by climate change | IN PICS
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Yearender 2024: A world altered by climate change | IN PICS

India TV News  

Image Source : AP 1/10 Pools of water caused by heavy rainfall between sand dunes are visible in the desert town of Merzouga, Morocco. Image Source : AP 4/10 Throughout the year, there was way too much water in some places and not enough in others, increasingly common as climate change alters natural weather patterns. Image Source : AP 6/10 …

Solutions: As climate change worsens, so too will natural disasters. Here’s how to pay for them
2 months ago

Solutions: As climate change worsens, so too will natural disasters. Here’s how to pay for them

LA Times  

These days it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. At the U.N. climate conference in 2022, participating countries agreed to create a new method — a fund for loss and damage, generally defined as consequences of climate change that go beyond what people are able to …

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion
2 months ago

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion

CNN  

CNN — Last month, two major storms, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, caused a total of between $51.5 billion and $81.5 billion of property damage, mostly to Southeastern US states, according to estimates from CoreLogic. The report from the International Chamber of Commerce, which comes as the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins in Azerbaijan this week, estimated that the …

Revealed: The 10 DEADLIEST extreme weather events over the past 20 years - and scientists say climate change made them ALL worse
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Revealed: The 10 DEADLIEST extreme weather events over the past 20 years - and scientists say climate change made them ALL worse

Daily Mail  

From droughts, floods and heatwaves, it seems no corner of the globe has been spared by fatal climate events in the past two decades. All 10 events – three tropical cyclones, four heatwaves, a drought and two floods – were made worse by human-caused climate change, say scientists at World Weather Attribution. The Somalian drought back in 2011 caused a …

John Kerry warns that Project 2025 would be "absolutely unimaginable and destructive"
6 months, 4 weeks ago

John Kerry warns that Project 2025 would be "absolutely unimaginable and destructive"

Salon  

During a sweltering rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, June 9, former President Donald Trump complained to his supporters about "sweating like a dog" in the triple-digit heat. Because climate change is breaking temperature records all over the world, one might have assumed that the aspiring leader's next act would have been to express concern for the other people at …

US suffered 28 extreme weather events in 2023, lost $93 billion in damages
1 year ago

US suffered 28 extreme weather events in 2023, lost $93 billion in damages

India Today  

In an unprecedented year for climate extremes, the United States grappled with a historic number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, as reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The nation's average temperature soared to the fifth-highest on record, signaling a troubling trend that experts attribute to climate change and possibly the El Nino weather phenomenon. The global stage also …

Natural disasters that plagued the world in 2023
1 year ago

Natural disasters that plagued the world in 2023

Al Jazeera  

Natural calamities and harsh weather dominated news headlines in 2023. Seismic tremors, massive floods, raging wildfires, unrelenting droughts, landslides, cyclones and storms hit around the world, killing and displacing tens of thousands of people. On September 8, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Morocco, killing at least 2,900 people and wounding 5,500. It was followed by another magnitude 6.3 earthquake …

Yearender 2023: From Cyclone Biparjoy to China earthquake, top 10 natural calamities of this year
1 year ago

Yearender 2023: From Cyclone Biparjoy to China earthquake, top 10 natural calamities of this year

India TV News  

Yearender 2023: ​A natural disaster is a natural occurrence that causes great damage to property or loss of human life. Turkey–Syria earthquakes As many as 59,259 people lost their lives after a massive earthquake of 7.8 magnitude jolted parts of Turkey and Syria on February this year. According to the State's Revenue and Disaster Management Ministry, over 12 lakh people …

REVEALED: The US has suffered a record 23 billion-dollar climate disasters so far this year costing an eye-watering $57.6 BILLION - as tornadoes, wildfires and flooding ravaged the nation
1 year, 3 months ago

REVEALED: The US has suffered a record 23 billion-dollar climate disasters so far this year costing an eye-watering $57.6 BILLION - as tornadoes, wildfires and flooding ravaged the nation

Daily Mail  

Hundreds of Americans have died due to climate catastrophes in 2023, which has already smashed records for the highest number of billion-dollar disasters incurred in a single year. With four months still to go, the US has been struck by 23 disasters which came at a loss of at least $1 billion each - eclipsing the previous annual record of …

U.S. sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — with 4 months still to go
1 year, 4 months ago

U.S. sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — with 4 months still to go

LA Times  

Ryan Orosco carries his son, Johnny, on his back amid floodwaters around their home in the Northern California city of Brentwood in January. The deadly fires in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the U.S. to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more — with four months still to go …

Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink
1 year, 6 months ago

Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink

The Independent  

The world is hotter than it’s been in thousands of years, and it’s as if every alarm bell on Earth were ringing. Unless humanity radically transforms the way people travel, generate energy and produce food, the global average temperature is on track to increase by more than 3 degrees celsius, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – unleashing …

Climate crisis fuels Rwanda floods, landslides
1 year, 8 months ago

Climate crisis fuels Rwanda floods, landslides

The Hindu  

Published : May 09, 2023 14:58 IST - 4 MINS READ At least 130 people died amid severe flooding and landslides in Rwanda in early May, while thousands were displaced as entire villages were engulfed. “This means the consequences of a warming globe, that includes such as extreme precipitation will continue to escalate.” Flooding impact on agriculture could lead to …

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster

LA Times  

New climate data show that 2022 was among the hottest years on record but that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions just keep rising. Another study showed the amount of heat being taken up by Earth’s oceans reached another record high last year. And it’s another stark reminder that despite some recent progress on climate policy, such as the passage of the …

Climate change helped make 2022 the 3rd most expensive year on record
2 years ago

Climate change helped make 2022 the 3rd most expensive year on record

The Hindu  

US weather disasters are getting costlier as more people move into vulnerable areas and climate change raises the risks of extreme heat and rainfall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned as it released its annual billion-dollar disasters report on January 10, 2023. For example, “it is clear that climate change increases the upper limit on hurricane strength and rain …

US suffered 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2022
2 years ago

US suffered 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2022

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The United States experienced 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2022 – the …

NOAA: Ian, drought supercharged US weather extremes in 2022
2 years ago

NOAA: Ian, drought supercharged US weather extremes in 2022

Associated Press  

DENVER — Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday. Even though 2022 wasn’t near record hot for the United States, it was the third-wildest year nationally both in number of extremes …

Natural disasters that hit the world hard in 2022 | DETAILS
2 years ago

Natural disasters that hit the world hard in 2022 | DETAILS

India TV News  

Natural disasters in 2022 : Several countries around the world battled a wave of extreme weather events from wildfire to floods and earthquake to mudslide. Image Source : AP/ REPRESENTATIONAL.Residents inspect houses damaged by earthquake in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia. Image Source : PTI/ REPRESENTATIONAL.Women offer prayers at a temple of Hindu goddess Durga, damaged by erosion of river Brahmaputra …

2022 was a historic year for climate change reform — and for natural disasters
2 years ago

2022 was a historic year for climate change reform — and for natural disasters

Salon  

It may seem like 2022 was such a slog it felt more like three years instead of one — something about the pandemic has warped time perception — but even so, on geological timescales, it was a blip. Our planet's average temperature has fluctuated many times throughout its 4.5 billion year history, but things are heating up, fast, and humans …

New abnormal: Climate disaster damage 'down' to $268 billion
2 years, 1 month ago

New abnormal: Climate disaster damage 'down' to $268 billion

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We’re just getting used to it but that’s not …

'Weather-related disasters have increased five times over last 50 years,' says UN
2 years, 4 months ago

'Weather-related disasters have increased five times over last 50 years,' says UN

Firstpost  

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cited the floods in Pakistan, heat waves in Europe, droughts in places such as China, the Horn of Africa, and the United States – and pointed the finger at fossil fuels Geneva: With weather disasters costing $200 million a day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming, the world is “heading in the wrong direction,” the United Nations …

Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat and flooding
2 years, 6 months ago

Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat and flooding

India Today  

Extreme weather events from scorching heatwaves to unusually heavy downpours have caused widespread upheaval across the globe this year, with thousands of people killed and millions more displaced. For heatwaves and extreme rainfall, "we find we have a much better understanding of how the intensity of these events is changing due to climate change," said study co-author Luke Harrington, a …

2022 was 5th-warmest year on record and had 3rd most billion-dollar disasters, scientists say
2 years, 8 months ago

2022 was 5th-warmest year on record and had 3rd most billion-dollar disasters, scientists say

ABC News  

Concerning warming events occurred all over the world last year. Last year was the fifth-warmest year on record, according to a report released by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service on Tuesday. "2022 was yet another year of climate extremes across Europe and globally," Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement. NurPhoto …

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says
3 years ago

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says

NPR  

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says Enlarge this image toggle caption Gillian Flaccus/AP Gillian Flaccus/AP Wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and a winter storm and cold wave were among 20 weather and climate disasters in the U.S. last year that cost $1 billion or more, totaling $145 billion and killing 688 people, according …

2021 was US’s fourth hottest year on record with 20 billion-dollar climate disasters
3 years ago

2021 was US’s fourth hottest year on record with 20 billion-dollar climate disasters

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The US had 20 separate, billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in 2021 during its fourth-hottest …

Deadly extreme weather year for US as carbon emissions soar
3 years ago

Deadly extreme weather year for US as carbon emissions soar

Associated Press  

The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021, while the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year jumped 6% because of surges in coal and long-haul trucking, putting America further behind its 2030 climate change cutting goal. And last year was the deadliest weather year for the contiguous United …

Deadly extreme weather year for U.S. as carbon emissions soar
3 years ago

Deadly extreme weather year for U.S. as carbon emissions soar

LA Times  

2021 had the second-highest number of billion-dollar weather disasters — which are adjusted for inflation with records going back to 1980 — and third costliest. The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021, while the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year jumped 6% because of surges in coal …

Top 10 extreme climate events of 2021 each cost over $1.5 bn of damage, report says
3 years ago

Top 10 extreme climate events of 2021 each cost over $1.5 bn of damage, report says

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The ten most devastating climate events of 2021, including hurricanes in the US, China, and …

Climate disasters cost the world billions of dollars in 2021
3 years ago

Climate disasters cost the world billions of dollars in 2021

Live Mint  

The world continued to tackle covid-19 in 2021 but the climate change crisis didn’t stop. A new report from the UK-based non-profit Christian Aid looks at the ten most financially devastating climate events of 2021, from hurricanes in the US, China and India to floods in Australia, Europe and Canada. The resulting floods killed at least 240 people and caused …

How 2021's floods and heat waves are signs of what's to come
3 years ago

How 2021's floods and heat waves are signs of what's to come

NPR  

How 2021's floods and heat waves are signs of what's to come Enlarge this image toggle caption Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images In 2021, extremely rare weather disasters became alarmingly common. toggle caption Michael Hanson/AFP via Getty Images Unprecedented heat waves In late June, the weather forecast in Washington and Oregon read like something written for Southwestern …

Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year
3 years, 2 months ago

Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year

Associated Press  

Climate change in 2021 reshaped life on planet Earth through extreme weather. Heat waves proved deadly and unprecedented, pushing temperatures in the Northwest and even reaching 116 degrees Fahrenheit in Portland, Oregon, a city known for its mild climate. “These events would have been impossible without human-caused climate change,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. A report from AIR Worldwide, a …

Weather Disasters Have Become 5 Times As Common, Thanks In Part To Climate Change
3 years, 4 months ago

Weather Disasters Have Become 5 Times As Common, Thanks In Part To Climate Change

NPR  

Weather Disasters Have Become 5 Times As Common, Thanks In Part To Climate Change Enlarge this image toggle caption Karl Mondon/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images Karl Mondon/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images Climate change has helped drive a fivefold increase in the number of weather-related disasters in the last 50 years, according to a new …

This summer’s disasters show climate change is very much ‘a rich-country problem’ now
3 years, 5 months ago

This summer’s disasters show climate change is very much ‘a rich-country problem’ now

LA Times  

A man stands under a spray of water to beat the heat at a splash park in Calgary, Alberta, in June. Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. had what climate scientist Zeke Hausfather called “scary” heat that soared well past triple digits on the thermometer, shattering records and accompanied by unusual wildfires. What happens with U.S. hurricane and …

Study: Sharp rise in extreme weather events in last 50 yrs
3 years, 10 months ago

Study: Sharp rise in extreme weather events in last 50 yrs

Hindustan Times  

A new paper by scientists from ministry of earth sciences has revealed a sharp rise in extreme weather events in India in the past 50 years, although the overall mortality due to extreme weather events has been declining, pointing to both the challenge posed by the climate crisis, and the fact that governments have become better at saving lives, although …

Nearly 500,000 killed by extreme weather disasters in 20 years
3 years, 11 months ago

Nearly 500,000 killed by extreme weather disasters in 20 years

Al Jazeera  

Researchers say rich nations are not doing enough to help developing countries with the deadly fallout from global warming. Almost half a million people have been killed in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, with the world’s poorest countries increasingly bearing the brunt of climate change’s wrath. Germanwatch’s Global Climate Index examined the impact …

World's top 10 environment disasters caused $150 billion worth of damages : report
4 years ago

World's top 10 environment disasters caused $150 billion worth of damages : report

Firstpost  

Earth’s average surface temperature has gone up at least 1.1 degrees C on average compared to late 19th-century, with much of that warming occurring in the last half-century. The ten costliest weather disasters worldwide this year saw insured damages worth $150 billion, topping the figure for 2019 and reflecting a long-term impact of global warming, according to a report Monday. …

The stormy, fiery year when climate disasters wouldn’t stop
4 years, 1 month ago

The stormy, fiery year when climate disasters wouldn’t stop

Associated Press  

Nature struck relentlessly in 2020 with record-breaking and deadly weather- and climate-related disasters. The United States didn’t just set a record for the most disasters costing at least $1 billion — adjusted for inflation — the nation obliterated the record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Since April, we’ve seen a large disaster occur somewhere in the country …

Climate change spurs doubling of disasters since 2000: UN
4 years, 3 months ago

Climate change spurs doubling of disasters since 2000: UN

Hindustan Times  

Climate change is largely to blame for a near doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years, the United Nations said on Monday. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said 7,348 major disaster events had occurred between 2000 and 2019. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said 7,348 major disaster events had occurred between 2000 and 2019, …

Think 2020’s disasters are wild? Experts see worse in future
4 years, 4 months ago

Think 2020’s disasters are wild? Experts see worse in future

Associated Press  

A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. “It’s going to get A LOT worse,” Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb said Wednesday. “I strongly believe we’re going to look back in 10 years, certainly 20 and definitely 50 and say, ‘Wow, 2020 was a crazy year, but I miss it,’” Abdalati said. University of …

Climate change: Natural catastrophes cost $150 billion in 2019
5 years ago

Climate change: Natural catastrophes cost $150 billion in 2019

CNN  

London CNN Business — Hurricanes, wildfires and floods cost the world $150 billion in 2019 and losses for business and the economy are only expected to increase, because of a decade-long rise in natural catastrophes with direct links to climate change. “We expect 2020 to be part of this trend towards increasing losses from weather-related disasters, a trend that we …

World’s worst climate change-induced disasters cost countries £50bn in 2018
6 years ago

World’s worst climate change-induced disasters cost countries £50bn in 2018

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Extreme weather driven by climate change hit every populated …

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