“We need to think about how to adapt. How can we change our behavior so we can deal with these kinds of extremes, because they will become more extreme in the future as climate change becomes more severe.”
this summer. Streets turned into torrential rivers, sweeping away vehicles and reducing houses to rubble. Stranded residents were airlifted from rooftops and rescued in boats after floodwaters inundated their homes.Released on Tuesday by the World Weather Attribution initiative, the research used historical records and computer simulations to examine how temperatures affected rainfall from the late 19th century to the present.
Nearly 40 researchers from Europe, the U.S. and New Zealand were involved in the study from organizations including the University of Oxford, the U.K.'s Met Office, Germany's weather service, and Columbia University. If the planet continues to warm, the likelihood and intensity of extreme weather events like the floods would increase even further, it found.Researchers were able to detect the effect of human-induced climate change on rainfall by looking at a larger area, despite the variability of rainfall in the smaller region.
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