Drought that dried out large parts of the U.S., Europe and China this summer was made 20 times more likely by climate change, a study says.
Drought that stretched across three continents this summer — drying out large parts of Europe, the United States and China — was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study.
Researchers from World Weather Attribution, a group of scientists from around the world who study the link between extreme weather and climate change, say this type of drought would only happen once every 400 years across the Northern Hemisphere if not for human-caused climate change. Now they expect these conditions to repeat every 20 years, given how much the climate has warmed.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio "The impacts are very clear to people and are hitting hard," he said,"not just in poor countries ... but also in some of the richest parts of the world, like western central Europe." Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio This analysis was done using the warming the climate has already experienced so far, 1.2 degrees Celsius , but climate scientists have warned the climate will get warmer, and the authors of the study accounted for that.
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