Scientists Warn Climate Change Is Driving More Extreme Weather
Scientists say 1.44 C of warming is making heat waves, floods and wildfires more frequent and intense, with 84% of corals affected by heat stress.
- Catastrophe is increasingly inevitable as more than half of all human-produced greenhouse gases were released in the last 50 years, scrambling weather patterns and shrinking intervals between extreme events.
- Earth is 1.44 degrees Celsius warmer in 2025 than in the 1800s, driving more frequent and intense extreme weather; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported 84% of global corals suffered heat stress between 2023 and 2025.
- Recent disasters illustrate this trend: Australia's 2019-2020 Black Summer wildfires scorched 19 million hectares, Pakistan's 2022 flooding submerged a third of the country, and Hurricanes Milton and Helene ravaged the United States in 2024.
- Experts identify a 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' problem where psychological avoidance leads to inaction; Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the California Institute for Water Resources, warns, "The risk is that people just think you are exaggerating."
- Seismologist Lucy Jones developed a preparedness initiative in 2014 with then-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, producing widespread retrofitting and earthquake preparedness in California that offers a framework for mitigating future climate-driven devastation.
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Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, floods and droughts as long as we continue to use gas, oil and coal at our current pace. Those fossil fuels release…
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