WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- According to the World Bank, climate change is getting to the point that extreme weather should be seen as the new normal.
"As the planet warms, climatic conditions, heat and other weather extremes which occur once in hundreds of years, if ever, and considered highly unusual or unprecedented today would become the 'new climate normal' as we approach 4°C—a frightening world of increased risks and global instability," the report says.