Risk from extreme weather set to rise

Owen Humphreys via PA Wire
Year
2014
Published in
BBC

Professsor Georgina Mace talks to BBC News about the Royal Society’s recently released report, Resilience to extreme weather.

“For most hazards, population increase contributes at least as much as climate change – sometimes more. We are making ourselves more vulnerable whilst making the climate more extreme.

“It is impossible for us to avoid the worst and most unexpected events. But it is not impossible to be prepared for an ever-changing world. We must organise ourselves right away.”

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