There have been so many floods, in so many parts of the world, in such a short period of time, writes Adam H. Sobel. Is this climate change, or just a particularly severe bunch of weather flukes happening in close succession due to the climate’s own natural variability?
There have been so many floods, in so many parts of the world, in such a short period of time. In the past few weeks alone, there have been major flood events in Massachusetts, Hong Kong, Greece and Spain.
I am one of the unconvinced, but I am keeping an open mind. While we know a lot about how warming affects extreme weather, there’s a lot we don’t know, too, and the effects of global warming on blocking is one area of ongoing research and debate. El Niño may also have been a factor in these recent floods.
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