According to the UN, There has been a “staggering” rise in natural disasters over the past 20 years and the climate crisis is to blame. Between 2000 and 2019, there were 7,348 major natural disasters that claimed 1.23 million lives, affected 4.2 billion people and resulted in $2.97 trillion in global economic losses. That’s almost double the 4,212 disasters recorded from 1980-1999. Currently, the world is on course for a temperature increase of 3.2 degrees Celsius or more, unless industrialized nations can drastically cut their greenhouse gas emissions. That projected temperature increase is enough to increase the frequency of extreme climate events across the world.
www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/world/un-natural-disasters-climate-intl-hnk/index.html