WMO Reveals Unprecedented Climate Extremes in Last Decade: Droughts, Floods, Heatwaves
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Catherine Griffin
First Posted: Jul 03, 2013
Climate change may be having more of an impact than we first thought. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced that the world suffered unprecedented climate extremes in the decade from 2001 to 2010.
In just these ten years, the Earth experienced major storms, drought and floods. There were heat weaves in Europe and Russia, Hurricane Katrina in the U.S., tropical cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, droughts in the Amazon basin, Australia and East Africa and floods in Pakistan, according to The Guardian. These extreme and dangerous weather events are making meteorologists stand up and take notice--especially since there's the possibility that they'll only increase in the future.
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