In May India was struck by a deadly heatwave. Temperatures as high as 47°C caused 2,200 deaths.
This week a heatwave in Pakistan claimed the lives of hundreds more. As the chart shows, the number of extreme weather- and climate-related events is rising. Serious storms have more than doubled in frequency since the early 1980s. Floods and heatwaves have more than tripled.
The human consequences may be serious.
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