Why we’re more confident than ever that climate change is driving disasters

Posted on AllSides September 30th, 2020
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climate change, California wildfires, hurricanes
ANALYSIS

The emerging field of climate attribution helps explain the wildfires and hurricanes of 2020.

Back in 2017, record-breaking hurricanes like Maria and wildfires like Tubbs hammered the United States. But the specific role of long-term global warming was a tentative part of the discussion, with scientists speaking of it cautiously, in broad strokes.

Compare that with 2020, where researchers now have far more data showing just how much climate change affects the frequency and likelihood of heat waves (and fires that follow them), ocean heat waves, droughts, and intense storms....

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