Media reaction: Australia’s bushfires and climate change
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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
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
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
Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
In the early 2000s, a new field of climate science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods,... Read More
Met Office: Climate change made 2018 UK summer heatwave ‘30 times more likely’
This year’s summer heatwave, which saw temperature records broken across the UK, was made up to 30 times more likely by climate change, a new... Read More
Climate change made 2018 European heatwave up to ‘five times’ more likely
A rapid assessment by scientists of the ongoing heatwave across northern Europe this summer has found that human-caused climate change made it as much... Read More
Mapped: How global warming and land-use change threaten water security worldwide
The world’s water supply has been severely altered by global warming and changes to land use – such as agriculture and damming – over the past... Read More
Climate change ‘tripled chances’ of Hurricane Harvey’s record rain
When Hurricane Harvey struck Texas on 25 August, the state was hit by catastrophic flooding caused by record rainfall. In just three days, up to 40... Read More
Guest Post: Deploying the science of extreme weather attribution in the courts
Sophie Marjanac and Lindene Patton are lawyers at ClientEarth in the UK and Earth & Water Law in the US, respectively. ... Read More
Mapeo: Como el cambio climático afecta eventos meteorológicos extremos alrededor del mundo
Al principio de los 2000, emergió un nuevo campo de investigación en ciencias climaticas que empezó a explorar la huella del ser humano sobre... Read More
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