Victims of heavy flooding from monsoon rains crowd carry relief aid through flood water in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh Province, Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2022.
WITH weather disasters costing $200 million (£172.8m) a day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming, the world is “heading in the wrong direction,” the United Nations said in a new report today.
The World Meteorological Organisation, in the latest stark warning about global warming, said that weather-related disasters have increased fivefold over the last 50 years and are killing 115 per day on average — and the fallout is poised to worsen.
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres cited the floods in Pakistan, heat waves in Europe, droughts in places such as China, the Horn of Africa, and the US — and pointed the finger at fossil fuels.
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