The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events- more powerful storms, longer droughts, bigger fires, excessive heat waves shattering temperature records and severe floods, along with the visible evidence of receding glaciers and dying coral reefs - are warnings that human activity is changing Earth's climate in troubling and often unpredictable ways. They are portents of even graver dangers ahead.
Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States and the United Kingdom's Met Office have confirmed the link between anthropogenic climate change and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. As the planet warms, these types of weather phenomenon won't be mere aberrations - they will be the new normal. And it is going to get much worse.
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