In sweltering Brazil, worst-ever flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people.
FILE - Tim McCanon, center, is rescued by the Community Fire Department during severe flooding on Friday, May 3, 2024, in New Caney, Texas. In a world growing increasingly accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few days and weeks have seemingly taken those environmental extremes to a new level. FILE - A man and woman use a cloth over their heads to protect themselves from the sun in Manila, Philippines on April 29, 2024.
While several factors play a role in these extremes, “climate change is the most important one,” Silva said. “Climate change is loading the weather dice against us in every part of the world,” Hayhoe said. “What this means is that it is increasing not only the frequency and severity of many weather extremes, but also that the risk of compound events is increasing.”
“Heatwaves in India are by far the deadliest type of extreme weather events. At the same time, they are the type of extremes most strongly increasing in a warming world,” said climate scientist Friederike Otto in a statement earlier this week.
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