Climate change has made hurricanes like Maria more intense and destructive — and has exacerbated the public-health crises that hurricanes can unleash.
Climate change is making this problem worse. and timing of weather and climate extremes," as a United Nations report makes clear. More than half of the major extreme weather events between 2011 and 2015 were linked to human-caused global warming.
These extreme conditions threaten water supplies.
Eileen Natuzzi, a public health researcher who studied the disaster, noted that the illnesses and deaths underscored the "significant health impacts from our changing climate."
The Prime Minister lamented, "While the big countries talk the small island nations suffer."
Seventy-four people died.
Rich nations bear some of the blame for these climate-change-fuelled crises.
The rest of the developed world must urgently follow France’s lead.