LONDON, Aug 29 — Climate change turbocharged the winds and rain of Typhoon Gaemi, which killed dozens of people across the Philippines, Taiwan and China earlier this year, a...
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Gaemi skirted the Philippines in July, triggering floods and landslides that killed at least 40 people, before making landfall in Taiwan and China. It found the system’s wind speeds were seven percent more intense due to man-made climate change, and its rainfall was 14 percent heavier in Taiwan and nine percent heavier in Hunan.
And the group’s modelling found this warming has already increased the number of similarly strong storms by 30 percent—up from around five a year to six or seven. WWA’s method involves assessing how unusual an extreme event is, then modelling the likelihood of a similar event and its intensity in two scenarios: today’s world, and one without current levels of warming.
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