UN: Freak weather a warning to step up climate defences

Climate Change News: Governments have been told to face a “new abnormal” of extreme weather after a wave of natural disasters wrought death and economic damage around the world in recent days. Heavy flooding in Britain and South America, and devastating tornadoes in the US has laid bare the lack of official preventative measures, Margareta Wahlstrom, head of the UN`s disaster risk reduction agency said on Tuesday. They highlighted how climate change-linked events were becoming harder to predict as the planet overheats,......

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