India, Dec. 3 -- TheState of Global Climate 2019 says that once-in-a-century climate events are becoming regular

A whopping 22 million people would be displaced by December 31, 2019, due to extreme weather events. That is according to the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) State of Global Climate 2019 released at the Conference of Parties 25 (CoP 25) in Madrid on December 3, 2019.

"The number of new displacements associated with weather extremes could more than triple to around 22 million by the end of 2019," the WMO report said.

The report noted that extreme weather events, triggered by global warming and resultant climate change, increased in 2019.

This is a trend that has continued since the last few decades. "On a day-to-da...