2021 var året då extrema väder slog igenom på allvar i vår media. Katastroferna kom närmare oss: Tyskland, Gävle och massor av händelser i Nordamerika.
Här fokuseras mer på andra områden som vi sällan hör talas om. Svår torka på många håll i Asien, ökade blixtnedslag i Indien och inte minst glaciärsmältningen i Himalaya och vad den ställer till med.
Best of 2021: Climate change and disasters on The Third Pole
In 2021, the world was confronted with the impacts of climate change on disasters, and the Himalayan region was no exception
In many ways, 2021 marked a new threshold for climate change-related disasters. Global headlines were monopolised by incidents of extreme heat, flooding and wildfires in high-income countries such as the US, Canada, Germany and Greece – disasters these countries were poorly prepared for.
As these disasters rolled across developed countries, extreme weather was taking a toll in South, Central and Southeast Asia, and this was the continuation of a long-term trend.
The World Meteorological Organization’s provisional State of the Global Climate 2021 report stated that at the beginning of 2021, at least 7 million people had been internally displaced following disasters “related to natural hazard events”. The highest numbers of these displaced people were in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, followed by Ethiopia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Niger and Yemen.
https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/climate/climate-change-disasters-2021/
