Guest post: How weather forecasts can spark a new kind of extreme-event attribution
Extreme weather events across the world this year have been hitting the headlines at an alarming rate. To name a few, 2021 has seen flooding in ce... Read More
Climate change not the main driver of Madagascar food crisis, scientists find
Poverty, poor infrastructure and dependence on rain-fed agriculture are the main drivers of the ongoing food crisis in Madagascar, according to a new... Read More
Melting Arctic sea ice linked to ‘worsening fire hazards’ in western US
Arctic sea ice melt has driven an increase in “fire-favourable weather” across the western US over the past four decades, according to new resear... Read More
Guest post: How hourly rainfall extremes are changing in a warming climate
The floods across Europe, China and the US in recent months have again brought to the fore the ability of extreme rainfall to take lives, destroy hom... Read More
Today’s youth will face ‘unmatched’ climate extremes compared to older generations
People born in 2020 will have to face between two and seven times more extreme climate-related events over their lifetimes than people born in 1960, ... Read More
Guest post: Reviewing the summer of extreme weather in 2021
From heatwaves and hurricanes in the US to flooding in Europe and China, the weather over recent months has frequently hit the headlines. So, with... Read More
Explainer: What the new IPCC report says about extreme weather and climate change
The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the science of climate change lands in the aftermath of a series of deadl... Read More
Climate change will drive rise in ‘record-shattering’ heat extremes
“Record-shattering” extremes – which break weather records by large margins – will become more likely as a result of climate change, a new st... Read More
State of the climate: 2021 sees widespread climate extremes despite a cool start
While the early months of 2021 have been cooler than much of the past decade, global temperatures have risen in recent months as the effects of La Ni... Read More
Recent increase in major Atlantic hurricanes may be ‘rebound’ after 1960-1980s lull
Reported increases in major hurricanes in the North Atlantic over the satellite era are potentially a “recovery from a deep minimum in the 1960-198... Read More
Pacific north-west heatwave shows climate is heading into ‘uncharted territory’
The deadly heatwave that hit north-western US and Canada in late June would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused global warming,... Read More
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