Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed

Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by chimprich on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:48AM (#18039278)

I would say both, to some extent. It appears that climate change is driving more extreme weather events such as hurricanes. And when natural disasters do occur, it's a lot easier to report on them when people almost anywhere on the planet can provide a video of it.

I suspect the effect of natural disasters is also greater because of more people. A larger global population means more people are likely to be in the vicinity of natural phenomena, and higher population density means more people can potentially get into trouble at one time.

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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by gwright on Saturday September 22, 2018 @01:45AM (#18044675)

Can you point to some graphs/data to support your claim regarding more extreme weather? There doesn't seem to be much actual evidence of that according to https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica... which says:

    Despite the apparent increases in tropical cyclone
    activity in recent years, shown in Figures 2 and 3,
    changes in observation methods over time make it 
    difficult to know whether tropical storm activity has 
    actually shown an increase over time.

And this survey (https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/trends-in-extreme-we...) says

    It is therefore surprising to discover that by all the 
    various real world data considered here, the weather in 
    the first half of the 20th century was, if anything, 
    more extreme than in the second half. I have not found 
    any data, including in SREX, that contradicts these 
    trends. Furthermore there are no signs of this trend 
    changing (i.e. lessening and reversing) in recent years."

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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by chimprich on Monday September 24, 2018 @06:34AM (#18056495)

Sure. This seems like a good summary: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-guide/climate/what-affe...

One of your links refers to hurricane activity, where there seems to be less evidence of links with climate change.

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