WRITTEN BY ROGER PIELKE JR. ON DEC 19, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Don’t Believe The Hype: An Early Analysis Of Global Disasters In 2022
climate disasterIn September, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres made the following claims upon the release of a report — titled ironically enough — United in Science:
Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms and wildfires are going from bad to worse, breaking records with ever alarming frequency. Heatwaves in Europe. Colossal floods in Pakistan. Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/dont-believe-the-hype-an-early-analysis-of-global-disasters-in-2022/There is nothing natural about the new scale of these disasters. They are the price of humanity’s fossil fuel addiction. The number of weather, climate and water-related disasters has increased by a factor of five over the past 50 years.