U.N. Says Climate Change Making Extreme Weather Events Worse
Climate change has made deadly heatwaves and hurricanes, along with droughts and flooding, both more frequent and more intense in recent years, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.
More than 50 percent of major extreme weather events from 2011 to 2015 showed the telltale fingerprint of human-induced global warming, the World Meteorological Organization reported on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Marrakesh.
Source: Agence France Presse
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