Extreme Climatic events
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Subject: Environment
Context:
The major cause of worst locust attack after gap of 26 years is extreme weather events linked to climate change.
Concept:
- Extreme weather events include unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution, the range that has been seen in the past.
- As the world has warmed, that warming has triggered many other changes to the Earth’s climate.
- Changes in extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves and droughts, are the primary way that most people experience climate change.
- Human-induced climate change has already increased the number and strength of some of these extreme events.