As climate change worsens, extreme weather disasters pile up
From record rainfall inundating cities around the world to wildfires scorching an unprecedented area to deadly heat waves that have come with unrelenting regularity to the Northern Hemisphere this summer, extreme weather linked to climate change is unfolding with frightening clarity.
"This is a direct impact of the climate crisis," John Kerry, President Biden's special envoy for climate, told CBS News regarding the startling recent string of extreme weather disasters.
With greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere continuing to rise, so too have global temperatures. Since the start of the industrial revolution, average surface temperatures have risen by 1.1 degrees Celsius, setting into motion changes to the earth's climate that are manifest in more frequent extreme weather events.
"Rising global average temperature is associated with widespread changes in weather patterns," the Environmental Protection Agency says on its website. "Scientific studies indicate that extreme weather events such as heat waves and large storms are likely to become more frequent or more intense with human-induced climate change."
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