Does climate change cause disasters?

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Does climate change create or worsen disasters? Science answers “not really.” The evidence provides a slightly different conclusion from many of the headlines screaming disaster doom and gloom from human-caused climate change.

The reasoning comes from definitions. Climate change is defined as a change in weather statistics. Storms, air temperatures, floods, precipitation, droughts, and wildfires/bushfires are now being affected by human-caused climate change, in some cases substantially. The definition of “disaster,” though, is that people, our infrastructure, or our livelihoods must be affected. The weather is not always hazardous, unless we cannot deal with it.

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