Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat and flooding

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LONDON: Extreme weather events - from scorching heatwaves to unusually heavy downpours - have caused widespread upheaval across the globe this year, with thousands of people killed and millions more displaced. In the last three months, monsoon rains unleashed

On Tuesday , a team of climate scientists published a study in the journal Environmental Research: Climate. The researchers scrutinised the role climate change has played in individual weather events over the past two decades.

For heatwaves and extreme rainfall,"we find we have a much better understanding of how the intensity of these events is changing due to climate change", said study co-author Luke Harrington, a climate scientist at Victoria University of Wellington.For their review paper, scientists drew upon hundreds of"attribution" studies, or research that aims to calculate how climate change affected an extreme event using computer simulations and weather observations.

In general, a heatwave that previously had a one in 10 chance of occurring is now nearly three times as likely - and peaking at temperatures around 1 degree Celsius higher - than it would have been without climate change.

 

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