Heat Waves Now Occuring Every Decade Instead Of Once In 50 Years: UN Climate Report

As per a United Nations climate science report on Monday, the extreme heat wavs that previously struck only once every 50 years are not expected to occur once per decade due to global warming. Downpours and droughts have also become more frequent.

The report found that once in a decade heavy rain event are now 1.3 times more likely and 6.7 percent wetter. The once in a decade droughts could happen every five or six years.

Paulo Artaxo, who is the lead author of the report and an environment physicist at the University of Sao Paulo said, “The heat wave in Canada, fires in California, floods in Germany, floods in China, droughts in central Brazil make it very, very clear that climate extremes are having a very heavy toll.”