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Global warming is set to put potable-water supplies under increasing strain – even as oceans rise and the intensity and frequency of storms and other extreme weather events increase.
Climate scientists have warned for years that global warming caused by manmade emissions of greenhouse gases will generate more extreme storms.
Higher sea-surface temperatures translate into more powerful storms in the world’s oceans.
Avatars of liberal capitalism like the United States and the United Kingdom continued to perform anemically in 2012, while many Asian countries, relying on various versions of dirigisme, have not only grown rapidly and steadily over the last several decades, but have also weathered recent economic storms with surprising grace.
Heat waves, droughts, floods, forest fires, retreating glaciers, polluted rivers, and extreme storms buffet the planet at a dramatically rising rate, owing to human activities.
Today’s mega-cities, for example, already have to confront dangerous heat waves, rising sea levels, more extreme storms, dire congestion, and air and water pollution.
Virtually all countries will face a host of intersecting challenges from climate change, such as overhauling the energy sector and adjusting to changing patterns of rainfall, storms, droughts, and floods.
Several studies in the past year have shown that scientists can indeed detect long-term climate change in the rising frequency of extreme events – such as heat waves, heavy rains, severe droughts, and strong storms.
In 2005, the most severe hurricane season ever witnessed in the Atlantic devastated New Orleans and broke records in terms of the number and intensity of storms.
Talented Mexican technocrats, most of them trained in the US, have made substantial improvements to the country’s macroeconomic framework, and helped it weather recent storms.
Diplomats depend on these relationships to advance their national interests, and professional ties between military officers are sometimes the only channels that weather political storms.
They have somehow concluded that America will be spared from the droughts already destroying farms in California’s Central Valley, the rising sea levels already flooding coastal cities, the storms and wildfires routinely ravaging vast swathes of the American countryside, and the water- and food-supply disruptions that threaten us all.
As a result, during heavy storms, the runoff overloads drainage systems, causing pollutants to run through city streets and into local ecosystems.
Let the winds blow, the storms rage, the rain pour, the sea levels rise, and the air pollution kill, while denying that it could possibly have any relationship to humans greenhouse-gas emissions.
Some would dismiss such concerns as a jeremiad; after all, human societies have survived for millennia, despite storms, earthquakes, and pestilence.
As population rises, billions of people crowd into Earth’s vulnerable areas – near coastlines battered by storms and rising sea levels, on mountainsides susceptible to landslides and earthquakes, or in water-stressed regions plagued by drought, famine, and disease.
And they increased the scale and scope of domestic financial intermediation in order to reduce their vulnerability to external storms.
When observed carefully, social media can be interpreted like clouds portending storms.
The calm that has prevailed in eurozone financial markets for most of the past year would turn out to be only a temporary respite between storms.
On a scale that measures the accumulated cyclonic energy of hurricanes, this season is the first to have recorded three storms each rated above 40.
Harvey, Irma, and Maria were extraordinarily powerful storms.
Bangladesh has also saved many lives by building storm shelters and providing advance warnings of coming storms.
Despite the clear and mounting evidence of the cost-effectiveness of timely action to mitigate the damage storms cause, the world spends far more on post-disaster aid and reconstruction than it does on mitigation, and this is especially true in poor countries.
Finally, what of the storms themselves?
Although it is impossible to attribute any particular storm to climate change, we know that when tropical storms form over warmer water, they strengthen and become more intense.
Rising sea levels, drought in Africa, and increasingly turbulent storms all pose a new type of threat that must be taken seriously.
Hawaii, India, Oman, and Yemen have been wracked by severe storms and flooding.
Just think of the images of recent storms and floods in the Philippines and Vietnam that displaced and killed thousands, and multiply those horrors manifold.
What is less often noted is that it can also serve as a barometer – warning of approaching geopolitical storms.
Today’s political turbulence, indeed, has the same roots as yesterday’s financial storms: inadequate, unsound, and unformed institutions.
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