Climate Change Making Extreme Weather Events Worse: UN

Climate change making extreme weather events worse: UN

MARRAKESH, Morocco, Nov 8 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 08th Nov, 2016 ) : Climate change has made deadly heatwaves and hurricanes, along with droughts and flooding, both more frequent and more intense in recent years, according to a UN report released Tuesday.

More than 50 percent of major extreme weather events from 2011 to 2015 showed the telltale fingerprint of human-induced global warming, the World Meteorological Organization reported on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Marrakesh.