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Man-made global warming, caused mainly by fossil-fuel burning in rich countries, may well be a factor in the frequency and severity of major droughts, floods, and tropical storms.
So, yes, Trump just might get his growth number, especially if he finds a way to normalize economic policymaking (which is highly uncertain for a president who seems to prefer tweet storms to patient policy analysis).
In response, European governments, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund arranged a €700 billion emergency eurozone rescue program to calm the financial storms.
This year’s record-breaking drought in the Marshall Islands, apocalyptic storms in the Caribbean, and devastating floods in Bangladesh and the US demonstrate this.
The impetus for focusing on the environment was framed as a need to counter the threat of fires, drought, and “more powerful storms.”
After all, it means continued sea-level rise, stronger storms and more frequent flooding, drier and longer-lasting droughts, enhanced heat-stress episodes, ocean acidification (destroying corals and other sea life), and the northward migration of malarial mosquitoes and pine beetles.
The Monitor’s headline blared: “Climate change warning: brace for hotter heat waves, stronger storms.”
Moreover, it would disrupt weather systems, destroying harvests and threatening populations with droughts, floods, and storms of ever-increasing intensity.
Diseases are spreading, wells are drying up, storms are smashing cities and destroying crops, and rain is either a distant memory or an acute danger.
But the costs are too high to be impulsive, and the storms of political Islam are difficult to forecast.
When coastal areas were not heavily inhabited, such storms, while violent, did not cause significant, lasting damage to people’s livelihoods and lifestyles.
Moreover, as climate change causes sea levels to rise, extreme storms’ destructive potential is being significantly enhanced.
Although this rise may seem small in the short run, especially when compared to the immediate increase caused by major storms, its long-term effects must not be ignored.
In fact, engineering approaches have been developed that can protect coastal residents from the consequences of extreme storms.
They provide immediate protection during storm season, but can be removed at times of year when extreme storms are unlikely and recreational beach use is most important.
In order to protect the local economy further, beaches should be repaired after major storms through “beach nourishment” (replacement of lost sand from external sources).
History placed Merkel amid raging storms: a series of eurozone crises that drove wedges between Europeans; economic tensions at home that fueled social fragmentation; and the largest migration wave since World War II, which intensified European and domestic anxieties.
Merkel held the ship steady, but the storms continued to rage.
The Irish Think Again About the Lisbon TreatyMAYNOOTH, IRELAND – For months, the European Union has been battered by economic storms that now seriously threaten a protracted Europe-wide recession.
A Dramatic Comeback for EuropeLONDON – The Dutch are famous for building dykes that hold back the tides and storms sweeping across the Atlantic.
Climate change caused by environmental destruction in one place can cause floods, storms, drought, and famine anyplace, and easy global travel means that diseases travel more quickly.
It aims to build resilience against the long-term impact of global warming – that is, rising sea levels, harsher winters, hotter summers, worsening drought, heavier rainfall and storms, and more.
But climate change has made the floods, storms, earthquakes, heat waves, cold snaps, droughts, and landslides that mankind has come to expect much more potent.
For example, the data for major disaster events in 2013 suggest that for the first time in many years, more people were affected by storms than by floods.
Though it is too early to draw definitive conclusions, in the long run storms may contribute more significantly to the global costs of disasters, which already exceed $100 billion annually.
The reality of what we face was demonstrated in two major storms last year.
The rising concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is leading to more extreme storms, higher-intensity hurricanes, rising ocean levels, melting glaciers and ice sheets, droughts, floods and other climate changes.
A major novelty of the study is to analyze the impacts of climate change on several different regions of the US, and on several different sectors such as agriculture, health, water management, forestry, and coastal resources (many of which will be submerged or damaged by rising ocean levels and the increased severity of storms).
Many countries, including those with low income levels, need to rebuild their economic defenses – for example, by strengthening their budget positions – to protect themselves against future storms.
This year’s storms in central and southern China produced the worst winter weather in a half-century.
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