Global Extreme Weather Events Like Floods, Heatwaves, Droughts, Super-Storms Skyrocket: A New Study [Qic2CFI8Qh4]
Global Extreme Weather Events Like Floods, Heatwaves, Droughts, Super-Storms Skyrocket: A New Study As climate change accelerates, and the poles warm much faster than lower latitudes, heat balance and circulation on the planet has completely changes. One of my favorite phrases that I coined many years ago is "What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. It's not like Las Vegas." As jet stream waviness increases due to the reduction of temperature differences between the poles and lower latitudes, the jet streams become much wavier in the north-south (meridional) direction, and often get stuck in place. This directly causes accelerating increases in the frequency (how often they happen), severity (or intensity), and duration (like long lived heat waves leading to droughts) of extreme weather events around the globe, and these events often occur in regions where they did not before (like torrential rains or snow in deserts, for example). I often call these extreme weather events Weather Weirding, Weather Wilding, and Weather Whiplashing (where we rapidly swing from say a heat wave with massive drought, to torrential rains and flooding, and then back again to the heatwave). Through all these years of posting videos, often three times a week on my YouTube Channel, I have not monetized the channel, so any ads you see are not because of me but from YouTube itself. I would rather my videos get more free subscribers and viewers than reduce numbers by fees. My mandate is to educate the public. I am now at 48,800 subscribers. Please recommend my channel to your family and friends to help me pass that magical 50,000 number:) I rely on donations on PayPal, GoFundMe, and Patreon to keep my work going, so please set up a monthly donation of even $5 to help me out. Thanks for watching, and an extra thanks to those who have donated in the past. Please donate to to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem. GoFundMe: References and Links Article on PreventionWeb: Unequal evidence and impacts, limits to adaptation: Extreme weather in 2025 This report reviews some of the worst extreme weather events of 2025 the World Weather Attribution (WWA) team has studied, documenting the severe consequences of a warming climate and revealing, once again, how unprepared we remain. Across the 22 extreme events they analysed in depth, heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires claimed lives, destroyed communities; and wiped out crops. Together, these events paint a stark picture of the escalating risks we face in a warming world. Some of the key messages from the report include: -- In 2025, extreme weather events continued to occur at concerning levels. Although the natural modes of climate variability, such as El Nino were in a cooler phase, human-driven greenhouse gas emissions meant global temperatures were exceptionally high. -- Since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was signed, global warming has increased by 0.3°C. This seemingly small rise has already made extreme heat significantly more frequent, adding 11 extra hot days per year on average, and is projected to dramatically escalate with further warming. -- The impacts of 2025's extreme events are driven by local, context-specific vulnerabilities but in many cases the same patterns were found across the world. -- This year highlighted again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed, consistently hitting those who are already marginalised within their societies the hardest. But the inequity goes deeper: the scientific evidence base itself is uneven. -- The events of 2025 make it clear that while we urgently need to transition away from fossil fuels, we also must invest in adaptation measures. Many deaths and other impacts could be prevented with timely action. Link: Report pdf by World Weather Attribution group: Unequal evidence and impacts, limits to adaptation: Extreme Weather in 2025 Please donate to to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem. GoFundMe: Please subscribe to my YouTube channel. As well as my website, and YouTube, you can find me on Patreon, Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit (multiple climate channels within), Quora, TikTok, Discord, Mastodon, Twitch, Vimeo, Bluesky, TruthSocial, Threads, Substack, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc...