During the days immediately after an extreme weather event with large impacts, the question arises
what role climate change has played in it.
Sihan joined the CPDN team in Oxford in April 2017 to work on the TNC project, using weather@home simulations to investigate the impacts of recent extreme weather events on the Amazonian biosphere, looking at what
role climate change played in the likelihood of those extreme weather events, as well as how the change in biosphere would affect the local climate.
In an op - ed for the New York Times, Stanford professor Noah S. Diffenbaug writes that even though we don't yet know the
exact role climate change played in Texas, we would be remiss in discounting it entirely.
Using models to tease out the
specific role climate change played, they found that it made the Ferbuary heat at least three times more likely.
«We can not wait for climatologists to establish exactly
what role climate change played in different events,» says Kees van der Geest, also at UNU.
While it's difficult to determine the exact
role climate change plays in an individual event, such as Hurricane Sandy or the EF - 5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, because there are so many ingredients necessary to brew a single storm, the links are clearer when you look at overall patterns.
For Salawitch, the bigger question is what
role climate change might be playing.
Such events also lead to questions about
the role climate change is playing in altering these threats.
Although experts aren't sure what
role climate change played in the ice sheet's demise, they see it as an opportunity to improve our understanding of how glaciers will disintegrate as the planet warms.
We speak with world - renowned climatologist Dr. James Hansen on what
role climate change played in unleashing Hurricane Harvey.
Sihan joined the CPDN team in Oxford in April 2017 to work on the TNC project, using weather@home simulations to investigate the impacts of recent extreme weather events on the Amazonian biosphere, looking at what
role climate change played in the likelihood of those extreme weather events, as well as how the change in biosphere would affect the local climate.
Mann said it isn't clear how big of
a role climate change might be playing, though, compared to other factors.
While it may be too soon to tell what
role climate change has had on this tree - killing drought, it already has surpassed previous records; experts say that the dry - spell is the worst to hit Texas since rainfall data was first collected in 1895.