Guest post: How extreme weather conditions could last longer due to climate change
Peter Pfleiderer is a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin and a research analyst at Climate Analytics. Dr Kai Kornhuber is postdoctoral... Read More
Climate change made Europe’s 2019 record heatwave up to ‘100 times more likely’
The run of unprecedented temperatures in July – which sent records tumbling in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany – would have been... Read More
Guest post: Understanding the UK’s recent spike in wildfires
Dr Thomas Smith is assistant professor in environmental geography in the Department of Geography & Environment at the London School of Economics. ... Read More
France’s record-breaking heatwave made ‘at least five times’ more likely by climate change
The record-breaking heatwave that struck France last week was made at “least five times more likely” by climate change, according to a new... Read More
Guest post: Air pollution and irrigation mask extremes of India’s 2019 heatwave
Dr Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Dr Gabriel Vecchi, Dr Flavio Lehner, Dr Friederike Otto, Dr Karsten Haustein, Dr Claudia Tebaldi, Dr Maarten van Aalst... Read More
More than half the world could see ‘record-setting heat’ every year by 2100
More than half of the world could see new temperature records set in every single year by the end of the century if global warming is not curbed, a... Read More
Northern hemisphere’s extreme heatwave in 2018 ‘impossible’ without climate change
Last summer’s unprecedented northern-hemisphere heatwave “could not have occurred without human-induced climate change”, a new study concludes. ... Read More
Limiting warming to 1.5C could prevent ‘thousands’ of heat deaths in US cities
Holding global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, rather than 2C or 3C, could help prevent thousands of deaths in US cities during... Read More
Tornadoes and climate change: what does the science say?
The US has recently experienced one of its worst tornado outbreaks of the past decade, with more than 500 reported over 30 days. The number so far... Read More
Japan’s deadly 2018 heatwave ‘could not have happened without climate change’
The record-breaking 2018 summer heatwave in Japan in which more than 1,000 people died “could not have happened without human-induced global... Read More
Climate change has influenced global drought risk for ‘more than a century’
The influence of human-caused climate change on global drought risk could extend back for more than a century, a study finds. ... Read More
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