E&E News article explores how climate attribution science has developed in last 15 years
Posted on 8th January 2018
A recent article in Environment and Energy News explores how the science of attributing the effects of climate change to individual extreme weather events has developed over the last 15 years. The predominant view in the scientific community in 2003 was that, while it was evident that climate change had a significant event on the […]
Dr Sihan Li presents at AGU Fall Meeting
Posted on 3rd January 2018
The world’s largest Earth and space science meeting – the AGU Fall Meeting – took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 11-15 December. Post-doctoral Research Associate Dr Sihan Li (Meredith) attended the meeting to give several presentations on behalf of the climateprediction.net project. Her presentation Changing frequency of flooding in Bangladesh: Is the wettest place […]
Human-caused warming intensified Hurricane Harvey’s rains
Posted on 14th December 2017
New research shows human-induced climate change increased the amount and intensity of Hurricane Harvey’s extreme rainfall. The new findings are published in Environmental Research Letters and were presented in a press conference on 13 December at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. During August 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled over Texas and caused particularly extreme […]
New index of warming due to human influence on climate released
Posted on 15th November 2017
A new index of warming due to human influence on climate was released this week in the journal Nature Scientific Reports. It exceeded 1°C above mid-19th-century levels in 2017 and is rising faster than ever before, leaving little time to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. “Global temperatures may be pushed up temporarily […]
Assigning historical responsibility for extreme events
Posted on 6th November 2017
Historical responsibility of individual countries and regions can now be quantified for specific extreme events A new paper by Dr Friederike Otto, Professor Myles Allen et al[1] describes how scientific advances make it possible to assign extreme events to human-induced climate change and historical emissions from individual countries. These developments could allow losses and damage […]