This article discusses the linkage between global warming and disasters, from wildfires, to flooding. It is a sobering assessment of the financial implications of ignoring climate change.
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How Global Warming Fueled Five Extreme Weather Events
This article discusses the linkage between 2017 extreme weather events and global warming. Here is a quote:
“In a new collection of papers published Wednesday in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, researchers around the world analyzed 27 extreme weather events from 2016 and found that human-caused climate change was a “significant driver” for 21 of them. The effort is part of the growing field of climate change attribution, which explores connections between warming and weather events that have already happened.”