The European Cost of Extreme Weather

Global heating results in climate change. Climate change makes extreme weather events, like floods, fires, droughts, storms and extreme temperature variations, much more likely. Such events are becoming annual rather than once a lifetime. The European Environmental Agency have collected data, indicating that, over the last 40 years, extreme weather events have cost the EU circa 500 billion euros (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/03/extreme-weather-has-cost-europe-about-500bn-over-40-years). The European Environmental Agency data showed that Germany, France and Italy (relatively large countries?) suffered worst from extreme weather. In that 40 years, between 90,000 and 142,000 human deaths have been linked to these events. It is difficult to be entirely accurate in amassing such data. Membership of the EU has changed. Also labelling an event as 'extreme' is somewhat debatable (does it mean unusually intense, longer lasting or unpresidented?). Having said that, there is no doubt that fires, floods and damaging storms are becoming more frequent. It ought to focus European minds on reducing their emissions of 'greenhouse gases'.