Fact checks: Experts say extreme weather events are increasing in severity, not decreasing

Climate Signals background: Extreme weather events are becoming more common and increasing in severity due to human-caused climate change.

Article excerpt: 

Data shows climate events are wreaking more havoc

Randall Cerveny, a rapporteur on extreme records for the United Nations and World Meteorological Organization, told USA TODAY extreme weather events are increasing in severity. 

"For example, we currently have four ongoing weather extremes evaluations... within our (World Meterolological Organization) extremes evaluation project," Cerveny said in an email. "The three temperature extremes involve record-high temperature extremes in Europe, in Australia and for the globe, while the tropical cyclone investigation involves the potentially record-breaking duration of recent tropical cyclone Freddy."

The data shows increasing severe weather events of many kinds, said Alison Gillespie, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesperson. NOAA data shows a steady increase in billion-dollar climate events since 1980. 

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