Report: Stopping Global Warming Global Warming and Extreme
Weather: The Science, the Forecast, and the Impacts on America
Patterns of extreme weather are changing in the United States,
and climate science predicts that further changes are in store.
Extreme weather events lead to billions of dollars in economic
damage and loss of life each year. Scientists project that
global warming could affect the frequency, timing, location and
severity of many types of extreme weather events in the decades
to come. Over the last five years, science has continued to make
progress in exploring the connections between global warming and
extreme weather. Meanwhile, the United States has experienced a
string of extreme events – including massive floods in the
Midwest, Tennessee and Northeast, intense hurricanes in Florida
and along the Gulf Coast, drought and wildfire in the Southeast
and Southwest, and others – that serve as a reminder of the
damage that extreme weather can cause to people, the economy and
the environment. Th