Climate Change Driven Extreme Weather Events

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According to a new article in Nature Climate Change, more than a third of all deaths between 1991 and 2018 in which heat played a role were attributable to human-induced global warming. Overall, the estimates show that 37% of all heat-related deaths in the recent summer periods were attributable to the warming of the planet due to anthropogenic activities. Similarly, the recent incident of a rare late frost in April on some of France's best-known and most prestigious wine-producing regions considered to be an agricultural catastrophe can be attributed to global warming. Such events are not isolated weather catastrophes but they are a warning of the climate change that is taking place continuously. Climate change is causing more frequent and intense weather events according to a report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Cen

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