Vi har sett många extrema väder drabba människor de senaste åren och där dessa människor förtvivlat säger att de aldrig har varit med om något liknande. Varken dem eller äldre generationer på dessa platser. Mätdata bekräftar deras upplevelser. Värre orkaner, värre översvämningar, värre skyfall, värre värmeböljor, värre torka och värre bränder.
Och detta ligger helt i linje med IPCC:s förutsägelser. Den globala uppvärmningen till följd av den extremt höga CO2-halten orsakar ett mer instabilt klimat och oväder blir intensivare. IPCC har varnat för detta i flera årtionden.
En nyligen publicerad studie slår också fast sambandet, sedan man undersökt extrema väder under 2017.
Study Links 2017 Disasters to Climate Change
WASHINGTON —
Drought in the United States and East Africa. Floods in Peru and Bangladesh. Heatwaves in Europe and China. Even unusual cloudiness in Japan.
Climate change left its fingerprints on some of the biggest climate extremes of 2017, according to a new assessment.
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Seventeen studies from 10 countries make up the report, which the American Meteorological Society has been publishing annually since 2011.
They tease apart the factors that led to each extreme event and estimate the extent to which climate change contributed.
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For example, drought parched the U.S. Northern Great Plains in the summer of 2017, drying up farms and ranches, sparking wildfires and racking up more than $2 billion in damage.
The study found that climate change did not affect the amount of rain that fell over the region.
However, higher temperatures brought on by global warming meant that soil dried out quicker. That means a drought of this severity is 1.5 times more likely than it would have been without climate change, the report said.
https://www.voanews.com/a/study-links-2017-disasters-to-climate-change-/4695355.html