The anthropogenic climate change has aggravated the ten deadly extreme weather phenomena, as a result of which more than 570 thousand people around the world have died since 2004.
The effect of climate change on ten deadly weather phenomena in the international disasters’ database was studied by researchers from World Weather Attribution (WWA), an international group of scientists.
Researchers, in particular, analyzed three tropical cyclones, four waves of heat, one drought and two floods that have occurred over the past 20 years.
Accordingly, scientists came to the conclusion that the change in the climate caused by human activities exacerbated all the 10 most deadly extreme weather phenomena over the past 20 years and played a role in the deaths of more than 570 thousand people.
Strong drought in Somalia in 2011 became the cause of the death of more than 258 thousand people. Cyclone “Nargis”, observed in Myanmar in 2008, has become the second weather phenomenon in death over the past 20 years, which have claimed the lives of 138 thousand people.
The list of the most deadly weather phenomena over the past two decades included waves of extreme heat observed in Russia in 2010, in Europe in 2022 and 2023, the Daniel storm in Libya last year, the Khayan typhoon in the Philippines in the Philippines in the Philippines 2013, floods in India in 2013, a wave of extreme heat in France in 2015 and Cyclone “SIDR” in Bangladesh in 2007.
Researchers noted that the influence of these weather phenomena is greatly underestimated, since millions of deaths associated with heat, which are not reported in official statistics, could take place.
Scientists also emphasized that most of these deaths, the number of which exceeds 570 thousand, could be prevented, and called on all countries to activate efforts to adapt to extreme weather phenomena, accelerating the refusal of the use of fossil fuel.
Dr. Frederick Otto, a climatologist from the Imperial College of London and co -founder of World Weather Attribution, said that the climate change is not a distant threat. ”
“Climate change has aggravated extreme weather phenomena, as a result of which more than 570 thousand people died. This study should be an alarming call for political leaders who are still committed to the use of fossil fuel, heating the planet and destroying life. If we continue to burn it. Oil, gas and coal, then suffering will continue, ”she added.