06 October, 2015

The world rocked by 'insane' weather


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his weekend was insane for extreme weather worldwide.

As the planet has warmed, severe weather events are happening in every corner of the globe, alerting us to the need for strong, immediate action on climate change.

“No particular climate event can be identified as the consequence of a rise in global average temperatures driven by the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels,” according to climate scientists Erich Fischer and Reno Knutti at ETH Zurich—the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. “But some events that were once improbable have now become statistically more probable because of global warming,”

Read the EcoWatch story - “5 Extreme Weather Events Devastating the Planet.”

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