Extreme weather disasters over past five decades

The world meteorological organization is warning that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and  holding a conference warning service improvement that has been able to have a decrease of the casualties at these kinds of events and climate will continue for the coming decades our environment.  Global warming climate a change had made an on that storm made it more intense it slowed down the texas region dropped millions of tons of water and caused enormous amounts of damage. The world's countries currently have adequate warning networks, the issues of climate change coming up to the 26 climate negotiations later this year in Glasgow.

The world meteorological organization looked at some 11 000 weather disasters that have taken place between 1970 and 2019 two million people died in those disasters. A few years ago including hurricanes, Harvey Irma, and maria, and those storms together account for more than 35 percent of the worst economic damage done by the storms. Weather disasters around the world have surged five-fold over the last 50 years driven by climate change. The economic cost has actually been even higher over these decades exponentially growing seven-fold.

The slow-moving hurricane Ida pummeled Louisiana in recent days it caused catastrophic damage and left millions, without power weather-related disasters like Ida have increased in number in recent. Climate-related hazards impact has also grown far more severe with damages from weather-related events costing more than seven times they did in the 1970s despite the increase in hazards and their power and the number of people being killed by storms floods and droughts have decreased significantly down by two-thirds over the past five decades. Drought accounts for 650000 deaths storms killed about 570000 people floods in extreme temperatures were next in line the overall death.

New WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970-2019) details human and economic cost of disasters over past 50 years, with input from @UNDRR, @WHO, @PHE_uk
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The world warmer air carrying more moisture the heat waves certainly, almost all heatwaves now related to climate change the scales falling from the eyes over the last number of years as the number of events have increased and  warning systems getting people out of dangers way quickly and we saw at the weekend as well with hurricane ida that people were evacuated early the numbers of casualties relative to what might have happened 40 or 50 years ago was less the economic damage. The personal tragedies of all those things would still be terrible.