Climate Disasters Everywhere: How Climate Change Is Fueling Extreme Weather

In an instant, families and communities across the United States and around the world are seeing their lives, homes, and belongings wiped out by extreme weather disasters. From hurricanes and catastrophic flooding to wildfires and scorching heat waves, extreme weather is only intensifying as fossil fuels continue to drive climate change.

In this series, the Center for American Progress explores how human-caused climate change is fueling these disasters and how these events threaten communities’ safety, economy, health, infrastructure, and future. The series also explores how support for recovery, rebuilding, and resilience is essential in the short term and how transitioning away from fossil fuels is critical to avoiding even more catastrophic impacts in the long term.