Several recent weather extremes linked to climate change: Study

Dec 11, 2018, at 04:55 pm

Washington, Dec 11 (IBNS): The U.S. Northern Plains and East Africa droughts of 2017, floods in South America, China and Bangladesh, and heatwaves in China and the Mediterranean were all made more likely by human-caused climate change, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). 

Rising CO2 may increase dangerous weather extremes, whatever happens to global temperatures

Jun 18, 2018, at 05:44 pm

London, June 18 (IBNS): New research from the University of Oxford and collaborators at several other institutions provides compelling evidence that meeting the global warming target of 1.5°C may not be enough to limit the damage caused by extreme weather.