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- Climate Change is Happening
- Climate Change Impacts on Weather, Water, and Disease
- Increase in Natural Disasters
- Water Scarcity
- Other Impacts
- Conclusion
This chapter is from the book
Climate Change Impacts on Weather, Water, and Disease
Whether you believe in global warming or not is beside the point. Its effects are indisputable; all you have to do is look at the increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Although it may be that a portion of this trend comes from our increased awareness of disaster occurrences due to improvements in communication technology, the IPCC data suggests a very strong correlation between the recent changes in global temperatures and increases in extreme weather events.