Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In episode three, we discuss the latest advances in extreme weather attribution.
- Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London
Warming ocean water is ‘rocket fuel’ for increasingly destructive hurricanes.
There are three key ways climate change probably made these floods worse.
Global heating may be making the weather systems behind heatwaves more common in Europe.
Rapid attribution studies reveal climate change’s influence on the weather, but they’re expensive and time-consuming.
Large-scale droughts can have cascading impacts on food security. They can reduce yield, increase food prices, trigger changes in consumption and lead to unstable supply.
Las olas de calor extremo no se vigilan sistemáticamente en la mayoría de los países del África subsahariana. Esto provoca muertes innecesarias y prematuras que a menudo ni siquiera se registran.
Extreme heatwaves aren’t systematically monitored in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This leads to unnecessary and premature deaths which are often unrecorded.
It is not the case that all extreme weather events are being made stronger or more frequent.
Les systèmes d’approvisionnement en eau n’ont pas été conçus pour répondre aux évolutions météorologiques provoquées par le changement climatique. Il est désormais nécessaire de les adapter.
Water supply systems weren’t designed to deal with altering weather patterns brought about by climate change. This needs to change.
It’s very easy to assume climate change causes droughts, but they are complex extreme events that result from a combination of drivers.
The BBC is under fire for unbalanced representation of the UK’s national weather service.
Britain’s warm, wet winter brought floods and misery to many living across southern England, with large parts of Somerset lying underwater for months. When in January rainfall was double the expected average…
Australians and New Zealanders can now use their computers to help scientists discover if climate change has contributed to record heatwaves, droughts and flooding across both countries. The Weather@home…
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