13 September 2018, The Guardian, Climate change means Hurricane Florence will dump 50% more rain. Scientific study finds diameter of storm heading for US east coast will be 50 miles wider due to human-caused warming of planet. Hurricane Florence is set to bring 50% … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Extreme Events
17 August 2018, The Conversation, drought, wind and heat: when fire seasons start earlier and last longer. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service declared the earliest total fire bans in its history this week. The entire state was declared to be in drought on the … Continue reading →
Climate News Network, 7 August 2018, Hothouse Earth could soon be unavoidable. Human actions threaten to push the planet into a new state, called Hothouse Earth. In such a world global average temperatures could stabilise at 4°C or even 5°C higher than they … Continue reading →
28 July 2018, World Weather Attribution Heatwave in northern Europe, summer 2018. The summer of 2018 has been remarkable in northern Europe. A very persistent high-pressure anomaly over Scandinavia caused high temperature anomalies and drought there from May to (at least) July. Southern … Continue reading →