this week wouldn’t usually have been pinned on climate change before “attribution studies” to work out how likely the heatwaves are in a world with our changed climate and one without. Such studies have come of age in the past decade,However, Otto says, for heatwaves at least, we no longer need to wait before declaring climate change’s role.
But the status quo, in which many of those studies are carried out by non-governmental groups, such as the World Weather Attribution project that Otto is a part of, is “definitely not sustainable”, she adds. National weather agencies, such as the UK’s Met Office, should conduct more of the research to build up a picture of climate change impacts, say Otto and her colleagues in a review of attribution science published today.
Most severe droughts around the world, by comparison, aren’t attributable to climate change, the review found. And neither are most wildfires, the exception being high confidence in a climate link to increasingly frequent fires in the western US. However, heavy rainfall events have increased in most part of the world due to climate change, with nowhere on Earth seeing a strong decline in their likelihood.
Heatwaves linked to climate change were found to have killed 157,000 people worldwide between 2000 and 2020, with four-fifths of those deaths during the
what is the impact of the war in Ukraine on the global warming?
Haha! Everything is from climate change!! Or is it global warming Or acid rain Or a hole in the ozone layer Or maybe just more talk to extort money from rich countries
Good grief.