In addition, climate change is triggering more frequent extreme storms, particularly in the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean.
In addition, due to climate change more frequent extreme precipitation may also increase the frequency and intensity of flash floods.
Globally, the increase in climatic variability is responsible for more frequent extreme heat and drought stress events.
More frequent extreme weather events, both hot and cold, are predicted to freeze and fry coral in coming decades.
With sea level rise and more frequent extreme weather events, people living in these coastal regions will face increasing flood impacts in the coming years.
Predictions of more frequent extreme weather events put certain regions in the cross hairs of risks such as coastal flooding, heavy rain and erosion.
But let us again be clear that we are witnessing ever more frequent, extreme weather events, and the poor and vulnerable are already paying the price.
Elsewhere, UN agencies forecast that food commodity prices are likely to stay high and volatile because of rising demand, more frequent extreme weather and the biofuel industry.
Park it on one side: it is sufficient to state that the scientific consensus is that rising global temperatures will mean more frequent extreme weather events.
Climate scientists expect bigger and more frequent extreme weather events throughout the coming century – not just wind and rain, but droughts as well.
Increased climate variability and higher mean temperatures are expected across many world regions, both of which will contribute to more frequent extreme high temperatures events.
