Panel Warns Governments Of More Extreme Weather Coming Our Way
Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned the world-political leaders about more extreme weather coming our way. The panel met Friday in Uganda Africa.
The new report on global warming and extreme weather warns of “heat waves, floods, droughts and storms”. These unpredictable changes are more dangerous than the gradual increase in world’s temperature.
Washington Post has also reported that there was 66 percent chance that such extreme changes in the climate have been caused by carbon emissions and other human activities. The result is that economic losses from climate disaster have also gone up. The US has attributed nearly $1 billion dollars of economic losses due to weather disasters.
In August, National Weather Service Director Jack Hayes has said that there is no surprise 2011 will go down as extreme years for weather in history.
Due to such unpredictability of floods and droughts the number of farmers going in for supplemental weather insurance has gone up. They are paying as high as $30 to $40 per acre extra.
This is the first time the panel-formed by UN and World Meteorological Organization has focused on extreme dangers of climate change and warning governments to take preparations that will save time and money.


