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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
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Increase in Natural Disasters
Additionally, IPCC scientists agree that the health of millions of people is now at risk more than ever because of:
- More frequent and intense heat waves, floods, storms, fires, and droughts causing injury, disease, and death
- A decline in available potable water—and a simultaneous increase in world population
- An increase and spread of disease into previously uninfected geographies and countriesXii
- The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has identified several ways in which weather climate disasters have begun to worsen, including:
- Rainfall intensity;
- Storm intensity, especially hail, tornadoes and wildfire;
- Flood and drought;
- Effects of El Niño; and
- Loss of life and livelihood.Xiii