A new study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) reveals that climate change has contributed to an increase in dangerously hot days in 2024. The report highlights the intensifying impacts of climate change on extreme weather events worldwide.
According to the latest study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA), a global network of scientists who quantify how climate change has resulted in extreme weather events, the climate crisis added 41 dangerously hot days in 2024 for the average person. Climate change made 'heat, droughts, tropical cyclones and heavy rainfall more likely and more intense across the world, destroying lives and livelihoods of millions, and often uncounted numbers of people,' the group said.
It noted that severely high temperatures 'supercharged' the string of five typhoons and a tropical storm that struck the Philippines in a 23-day span in October and November. The rare clustering of severe weather killed more than 170 people and caused at least P12 billion in damage. During the summer months this year, several areas in the country sweltered as the heat index hit the 'danger' level, which is from 42 to 51 degrees Celsius. The highest heat index was 55 C on May 26 in Guiuan, Eastern Samar. The El Niño episode, which began in July 2023, also brought drought and serious water shortages that affected 4.65 million people. At least 430 cities and towns were forced to declare a state of calamity. Damage to agriculture was a staggering P9.496 billion. Scientists forecast 2024 to be the hottest year on record. Their forecast was spot-on. 'Almost everywhere on Earth, daily temperatures hot enough to threaten human health have become more common because of climate change,' one expert noted. For Dr. Friederike Otto, co-lead of the WWA, the response to rising temperatures is not difficult to comprehend. 'We know exactly what we need to do to stop things from getting worse: stop burning fossil fuels,' he said. Unless the world's voracious appetite for fossil fuels is curbed, the planet will continue to heat up, with deadly consequence
CLIMATE CHANGE EXTREME WEATHER HEATWAVES PHILIPPINES FOSSIL FUELS
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