Nations count cost of 2018 climate change-induced disasters

It is time to hire a PR firm or a Hollywood image team to breath some life into a topic that is getting very boring and old. People stop listening to things they hear incessantly. The message has to be modified and repackaged.

Topping the list were hurricanes Florence and Michael, which caused an estimated $17 billion

Reminder : the US got out of the Paris accord because it didn't want to pay 2 billion. Irony.

There is a critical lack of political will, and what ever happens from now, we will suffer some kind of consequences.

On the bright side, there's never been so many people mobilized on the issue.

City are working toward 100% renewable, more and more people are changing their habits, citizens are suing their government, etc... So we might still survive this.

@insane. Millions and millions are died and soon some countries won’t exist that is pretty good PR

Yeah, I'm sure Christian Aid only relies on real facts.....

I am not convinced that these disasters are the result of man-made greenhouse gases.

I am not convinced that these disasters are the result of man-made greenhouse gases

Because the ideology of a political party in America has more credibility than the results of decades of study by those who have committed their lives to that study.

...yeah, right.

Because the ideology of a political party in America has more credibility than the results of decades of study by those who have committed their lives to that study.

I have never relied on political parties, especially American ones.

Plenty of scientists have pointed out important holes in the "decades of study". And Climategate did a great job at demonstrating the corruption and bias in the climate research community.

I have never relied on political parties, especially American ones.

And yet your placing more priority on an American political ideology over the scientific findings of scientists who have dedicated their lives to the study.

Plenty of scientists have pointed out important holes in the "decades of study".

No they haven’t. That’s one of the political ideology that denies science.

And Climategate did a great job at demonstrating the corruption and bias in the climate research community

Fact check yourself.

Climategate showed that editors were eliminated after they allowed publications skeptical of man-made climate change.

Also, researchers that published papers in support of man-made climate change expressed skepticism of it in private communications.

But hey, continue directing your attention to political ideology if you like; perhaps that's why you are not aware of the skepticism within the scientific community.

This year is set to be the fourth hottest on record and as planet-warming carbon and methane levels in the atmosphere continue to rise, extreme weather events such as the devastating blazes that destroyed swathes of California are likely to become far more common.

This year could be the fourth hottest on record since sometime before the last ice age. Hotter, colder, hotter, colder, hotter, colder. It's almost as if it were a really huge, earthly, cycle.

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Yeah, I'm sure Christian Aid only relies on real facts.....

I am not convinced that these disasters are the result of man-made greenhouse gases.

Neither am I, take a look at these spruikers of Climate Change they all fly around the world on "carbon producing" planes, they live at the beach while claiming Oceans are rising because of the melting polar ice caps.

Global warming and the resulting climate change are real, are starting to happen now, and it is too late to prevent fairly disastrous impacts. It is not too late to prevent catastrophe. And addressing carbon emissions now can create jobs and economic growth, just not in the fossil fuel industry. But we need to act now and act as if this is a global emergency  because it is.

And addressing carbon emissions now can create jobs and economic growth...

Indeed, some will be massively enriched economically if we swallow this man-made global warming narrative.