Extreme Weather

Climate change is causing more frequent and intense heat waves, droughts, and downpours, costing dollars and lives. Learn about the links between climate change and extreme weather.

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A Climate of Extreme Weather Events

Much of the discussion of climate change focuses on slow changes in average temperatures and precipitation over time. But this focus masks the larger changes in weather variability and extreme weather events that will accompany modest changes in averages. Damages …

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Global Warming and Extreme Weather Events

This article appeared in Catastrophe Risk Management, Spring 2005.

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