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When looking at the news, it seems that Every year, there are undefined, such as severe storms and cyclones, droughts, wildfires, and floods. The number of billion-dollar disaster events has been trending upward for the past decades, and the number of deaths per year from these events now has undefined. This is unexpected because Zipf’s predicts that these events should be rare. Years with a lot of disasters and damage are not expected to happen consecutively, much less consecutively for more than a decade.
This may be partly because of the globalization of the world, where news can travel across the world in seconds. But, events with higher frequency and severity can be mostly attributed to climate change. The past hundred years of large-scale greenhouse gas emissions has been increasing average temperatures, which, in turn, strengthens both lack-of-water and too-much-water situations. Even worse, the first of the warming could be the start of positive feedback loops.
