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8 times extreme weather hit hard in 2021
(Eco Business, 30 Nov 2021) Record heat, record chill, back-to-back disasters. Now all part of the “new norm”.
Bad weather got serious several times around the world this year, with some places struck by different disasters just months apart. Experts think global warming has a part to play, even as 2021 is set to be “only” the fifth to seventh hottest year on record, with respite offered by a cooling La Niña phenomenon.
In fact, the World Meteorological Organisation says extreme weather events are now the “new norm”. It found such incidents to have increased five-fold over the past 50 years.
“The summer of 2021 has been marked by extreme weather, including high temperatures and heatwaves and heavy rainfall,” said Professor Benjamin Horton, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore, adding that they are caused by both “a natural stretch of bad luck” and global warming.
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Eco Business, 30 Nov 2021: 8 times extreme weather hit hard in 2021
