20 Images Of Freak Weather Phenomena Show Climate Change Is The Biggest Threat To Mankind

Most noticeable changes caused by the increase in temperatures globally is the melting of ice caps near the poles. Sea level is rising steadily as a result from continental ice melting into the sea and coastal cities will soon to be partially submerged under water. Climate change is also making rainfall erratic, and leading to freak weather occurrences common.

Here is a some freak weather issues that happened all across the world that remind you that we are in a real danger.

1. Chennai, India: Water crises

Millions of residents in Chennai, India¡¯s sixth biggest city, have no access to clean water due to the worst drought in decades. The lack of rainfall last year and late arrival of monsoon this year has led to city¡¯s major reservoirs running dry. India's major of the cities in India is facing an acute water crisis.

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2. Mumbai, India: Heavy rains

Monsoon has arrived and Mumbai is receiving heavy rainfall. Normal life in the financial capital has been completely disrupted and like every year, this year too water logging is common and so are the resultant traffic jams. Mumbai's also saw the second highest amount of rain within 24-hours since 1975.

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3. Guadalajara, Mexico: Summer hailstorm

A freak hailstorm blanketed Guadalajara, Mexico, trapping vehicles in up to three feet of ice. Guadalajara¡¯s streets became rivers briefly over the weekend. A powerful storm dumped rain and hail over the central Mexican city.

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4. Europe: Heat wave

Thousands of schools were closed, outdoor events cancelled and volunteers were visiting the elderly at home as France and other European nations battled a record setting heat wave baking much of Europe. Several people have died around the continent in incidents that authorities are linking to the weather.

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5. Great Barrier Reef, Australia

The world has lost roughly half its coral reefs in the last 30 years. Scientists are now scrambling to ensure that at least a fraction of these unique ecosystems survive beyond the next three decades. The health of the planet depends on it: Coral reefs support a quarter of all marine species, as well as half a billion people around the world.

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6. Himalayan Glaciers

More than a third of the glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) mountain range, the "water tower" of Asia, will vanish by the end of this century even if global warming is contained at 1.50 Celsius in the best case scenario, warns a report compiled by 210 experts. Here's the difference that Himalayan glaciers have been through.

7. Antarctica

The future of Emperor Penguins, the largest penguin species in the world is looking increasingly bleak after it emerged that thousands of chicks might have been drowned in the sea after their breeding ground collapsed. What is even worse is that the and the population has not recovered since as virtually no hatching has been reported from there in the next three years.

8. Siberia

Due to global warming, frozen Siberia could become 'Liveable' in the next fifty years.

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9. Norilsk, Northern Siberia

A visibly feeble and exhausted female polar bear was spotted on in the busy industrial town of Norilsk in northern Siberia. The starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometres from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted into the city. Polar bears are slowly running out of food, and it's all our fault thanks to global warming.

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10. Greenland

There can¡¯t be a more heart-rending depiction of climate change, than this image. Sled dogs are wading through water in Greenland. The photo was taken by Steffen Olsen from the Centre for Ocean and Ice. The water in this photo was once a 1.2-metre-thick ice sheet. The sea ice loss is several weeks ahead of normal. Melting events such as the one pictured would normally not happen until late June or July.

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11. Nepal

A freak storm tore down houses and overturned cars and trucks as it swept across southern Nepal killing at least 27 people and leaving more than 600 injured.

12. Australia

Photo of a lake that has turned a vivid pink thanks to extreme salt levels further exacerbated by hot weather in a startling natural phenomena that resembles a toxic spill, in Melbourne. The natural spectacle is the result of green algae at the bottom of the lake at Westgate Park on the outskirts of Melbourne responding to high levels of salt and changing colour.

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13. Delhi, India

As many parts of India are eagerly waiting for the monsoon there is a bad news for Delhi. Scorching heat is back. Mercury is expected to breach 45 degree Celsius mark today. According to IMD officials, the national capital will experience extremely hot afternoon and people should try to stay indoors.

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14. Finland

This aerial picture shows cracks in the melting frozen sea seen during warm temperatures at the beginning of spring in Soedra Vallgrund, Raipaluoto island, western Finland.

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15. Brazil

A child is seen on a street flooded by the rising Rio Solimoes, one of the two main branches of the Amazon River, in Anama.

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16. Alaska, USA

With recent unusually high temperatures life in this remote villages has been affected causing eroded land, flooding, and difficulties to access roads and to hunting. Local leaders are also mulling moving the entire village of 700 people to safer grounds. A family rides their quad bike beside bad erosion of the permafrost tundra at the climate change affected Yupik Eskimo village of Napakiak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska.

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17. Alaska, USA

Schoolchildren play on melting ice at Yupik Eskimo village of Napakiak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska. According to scientists, Alaska has been warming twice as fast as the global average, with temperatures in February and March shattering records. From 1901 to 2016, average temperatures in the mainland United States increased by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

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18. Myanmar

This photo shows the dried bed of a lake in the Shwe Settaw nature reserve in Magway region. A herd of endangered deer wait in the shade of one of the sparse trees punctuating the parched landscape in Myanmar, watching rangers dispatch water to keep them alive - funded by well-wishers from across the country.

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19. Costa Rica

View of a structure in the dried lake of La Sabana Metropolitan Park in San Jose. The lake was affected by droughts caused by El Nino phenomenon. La Sabana is an important sports, cultural and recreational area of 72 hectares in the Costa Rican capital. It is the main and largest public space in the city and the most visited in the whole country.

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20. Gujarat, India

Indian migrant shepherd Ranabhai, from Vaundh village of Kutch, kneels down amongst his dead sheep at a field in Ranagadh village of Surendranagar district. Cities across northern India have been sweltering with temperatures above 47 Celsius (116.6 Fahrenheit). According to local veterinary some 60 sheep have died due to extreme heat and deprivation of water.