The nation's weather chief and other experts say the U.S. gets hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on Earth.
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Nature dealt the United States a bad hand, but people have made it much worse by what, where and how we build, several experts told The Associated Press.
not understand the trend or what is happening over a prolong time, but when you look at the devastating weather events over the past year or so, how much is climate change affecting these weather catastrophes we are seeing play out? there are surprises in store when it comes to the impacts of climate change, and one of the surprises we re seeing is this very dramatic increase in extreme weather events, the unprecedented heat waves and droughts and wildfires and super floods, that northwest heat dome that we saw this summer by some estimates was a 1 in 20,000-year event. we shouldn t be seeing things like this. even accounting for climate change it was estimated to be a 1 in a 1,000-year event. what that tells you is the climate models we re using to diagnose the impacts of climate change on these extreme weather events if anything are underestimating the impact