Extreme weather events are unusual or damaging weather events, including storms, fires, rainfall, and drought. Although extreme weather has been part of the meteorological system for millions of years, climate change is making our weather more extreme, more frequently, in ways never before seen in human history.
How does extreme weather affect our health?
Extreme storms, fires, rainfall, and drought can profoundly damage the communities in their path. Not only do they cost billions to society, but they can cause loss of life, serious injuries, and major destruction to vital infrastructure. They can spread disease, displace families, and trigger mental health problems. They are a major strain on health care systems.
What you can do.
Please read our resources on climate change, and join our fight to cut climate pollution.
The science is clear. We must act with urgency.
Moms Clean Air Force demands that city, state, and federal lawmakers and regulators move us onto a path to climate safety immediately.
- We must mobilize immediately for a transition to zero climate pollution. The 100% Clean Economy bill is a great start.
- We must have laws and regulations that rapidly draw down carbon and methane emissions and ramp up energy efficiency everywhere.
- Our goals must be ambitious, and staged deadlines must be strictly enforced to demonstrate measurable progress.
- We must ensure that vulnerable populations and communities of color are given equitable protections and are granted access to cost-effective clean-energy options.
- We must make bold investments in innovative technologies that will help solve this climate crisis.
- We must hold companies accountable for cleaning up their climate pollution.
Tell Your Representatives:
It’s Beyond Time for Climate Safety
Resources about Extreme Weather

Testimony: Heather McTeer Toney, House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Hearing on “Sweltering in Place: COVID-19, Extreme Heat, and Environmental Justice,” July 2020

Virtual Cafecito: Cuentos del Fuego

Extreme Weather and Our Changing Climate

What Health Professionals Can Do About Climate Change

Climate Change and Children's Health

How Climate Change Makes Hurricanes Worse

¿Cómo el cambio climático empeora los huracanes?

Wildfire Smoke and Your Health

Lo que los profesionales de la salud pueden hacer respecto del cambio climático

Extreme Weather Facts

Climate Change and Latinos

Climate Change and Children's Health Graphic

Hurricane Season Ended. It Was a Doozy.

Why Are Birds Falling From the Sky?

Climate Change Up Close and Personal at Raising the Green Bar (video)

Moms Share Wildfire Smoke Stories: Moms Make News October 10-25, 2020

Wildfires are Breathing Down on My Home

Tell Debate Moderators: Moms Want Answers On Climate Pollution Plans

The Price of Normalizing Climate Disasters

A Scientist Mom’s Concerns About Breathing Wildfire Smoke

How Climate Change Affects Hurricanes

Step Up Climate Action to Protect our Children

Book Review: How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change: Turning Angst into Action

Tatiana Schlossberg Author of "Inconspicuous Consumption" Discusses Climate, Consumption, and Covid

Hurricane Season Ended. It Was a Doozy.

Why Are Birds Falling From the Sky?

Climate Change Up Close and Personal at Raising the Green Bar (video)

Moms Share Wildfire Smoke Stories: Moms Make News October 10-25, 2020

Testimony: Heather McTeer Toney, House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Hearing on “Sweltering in Place: COVID-19, Extreme Heat, and Environmental Justice,” July 2020

Virtual Cafecito: Cuentos del Fuego

Wildfires are Breathing Down on My Home

Tell Debate Moderators: Moms Want Answers On Climate Pollution Plans

The Price of Normalizing Climate Disasters

A Scientist Mom’s Concerns About Breathing Wildfire Smoke

How Climate Change Affects Hurricanes
