Brittiska tidningen The Guardian, som finns att läsa gratis på nätet, skriver om klimatförändringarna och de studier som gjorts för att fastställa om en extrem väderhändelse orsakats av klimatförändringen eller gjorts mycket mera trolig på grund av den.
The science of determining the role of global heating in extreme weather events is called attribution. In its early days, more than a decade ago, the relatively subtle influence detected was likened to finding the fingerprints of climate change. Today, the influence is so obvious that the researchers are instead like eye witnesses to a crime.
“Some say climate scientists shouldn’t paint a picture of doom and gloom. But we are humans, we have feelings, we have children,” said Dr Joyce Kimutai at Imperial College London, UK, part of the World Weather Attribution group and an adviser with Kenya’s Cop29 delegation.
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The deadly supercharging of extreme weather is not new – it has existed for at least 20 years, largely undetected. But more than 1,000 people who died prematurely in the UK in the 2003 heatwave would have lived without global heating.
More recently, the increased intensity of 2017’s Hurricane Maria, fuelled by climate change, was the reason for 3,700 deaths in Puerto Rico, while 13,000 people would not have been forced from their homes by Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique in 2019 without global heating.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...studies-reveal
