Global Weather Disasters 2020 -2021
Channel: Kevin Rennie
Date: 2021-08-12

Global Weather Disasters

Since the 2019 United Nations ClimateChange Conference, our planet has experienced numerous extreme weather events, with increased frequency and intensity. 

This video presents just a small fraction of those. It includes: droughts in Africa & North America; floods in Europe, China & India; and heatwaves & wildfires in Australia, North America and the Mediterranean.

According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNDRR, overall climate-related disasters went up from 3,656 in 1980–1999 to 6,681 in 2000–2019, an increase of 83 per cent.

'A clear fingerprint of human-induced climate change has been identified on many of these extreme events’ (World Meteorological Organization) https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/united-science-report-climate-change-has-not-stopped-covid19

The United Nations will consider Climate Change progress at the Glasgow COP26 Conference in November 2021. Make sure your government supports the strongest action to tackle global warming before it is too late.

Music:

Epic Cinematic - Scott Holmes (Creative Commons License 4.0)
Transformations II - David Hilowitz (Creative Commons License 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

For more detailed coverage please see: Code Red: climate crisis is inflaming extreme weather disasters
https://globalvoices.org/2021/08/16/code-red-climate-crisis-is-inflaming-extreme-weather-disasters/