Today, they stand in varying states of decay, ravished by time, vandals and wild weather.

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The world had already been witnessing wild weather for years, but in 2001, scientists under the UN's Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, formed a consensus on the causes.

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But tomorrow and the next day will bring more news of the full extent of death and destruction that the storm caused, and a great need for rebuilding, and preparation for the next disaster in a world of increasingly wild weather.

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The wild winter weather is bringing attention to the climate change issue, and Weather Underground wants to provide valuable information to its readers.

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Or eavesdrop as producer Melissa Bernstein recalls the wild story of attaching a camera to a weather balloon only to have it break loose and fly 200 miles before landing largely intact.

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These will be spread like wild-fires by frequent climate change-induced weather events of catastrophic proportions.

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Leading actors are making the investments needed to forge value chains that, not only promote sustainable farmer livelihoods, but are resilient in the face of shocks from increasingly unpredictable weather, higher food costs, and wild swings in currency, energy and commodity prices.

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