Climate Change

Hurricane Sandy

DTE Staff

Published:30th Oct, 2012 at 6:32 PM

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Hurricane Sandy is wreaking havoc in the US. For a country that hesitates to talk about climate change, the superstorm has forced it to brainstorm. Newspaper columns and social media posts have started to explore the link between climate change and the storm. Down To Earth has been reporting on extreme climate events and their links to climate change, including category five hurricane Katrina of 2005. A few selected articles:

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• Extreme sea-level events in coastal regions | Source: Current Science

• Extreme weather events and crop price spikes in a changing climate | Source: Oxfam International

• Global Warming Causes More Extreme Shifts of the Southern Hemisphere's Largest Rain Band, Study Suggests | Source: Environment News Network

• More extreme swings of the South Pacific convergence zone due to greenhouse warming | Source: Nature

• Explaining extreme events of 2011 from a climate perspective | Source: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

• The cost of adapting to extreme weather events in a changing climate | Source: The World Bank

• Environmental prediction, risk assessment and extreme events: adaptation strategies for the developing world | Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A

• Extreme weather endangers food security 2010-11: a grim foretaste of future suffering and hunger? | Source: Oxfam International

• Global climate risk index 2012 | Source: Germanwatch

• Special report on managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation: summary for policymakers | Source: IPCC Secretariat

• Changes in extreme rainfall events and flood risk in India during the last century | Source: India Meteorological Department

• Guidance on water supply and sanitation in extreme weather events | Source: World Health Organization

• Weather extremes in a changing climate: hindsight on foresight | Source: World Meteorological Organization

• Current extreme weather events | Source: WMO

• Adaptation to climate extremes in Developing Countries: the role of education | Source: The World Bank

• 55 Million people affected by extreme weather disasters in 2009 | Source: International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

• Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility | Source: Environment & Urbanisation

• Alarming rise in the number and intensity of extreme point rainfall events over the Indian region under climate change scenario | Source: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

• Forecast for mets: grim | Source: Down to Earth

• Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation | Source: IPCC Secretariat

• Extreme events and disasters: managing the risks | Source: IPCC Secretariat

• 2008 among the ten warmest years; marked by weather extremes | Source: WMO

• Global climate risk index 2009 | Source: Germanwatch

• Weather and climate extremes in a changing climate | Source: U.S. Climate Change Science Program

• Extreme rainfall events: Vulnerability analysis for disaster management and observation system design | Source: Current Science

• Extreme rainfall events: Vulnerability analysis for disaster management and observation system design | Source: CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation

• Extreme weather events over India in the last 100 years | Source: Journal of the Indian Geophysical Union