Unlike water vapor, which leaves the atmosphere a few days after entering it in the form of rain, carbon dioxide sticks around for hundreds of years. Wer einen Überblick zum Potential der Extremwetterereignis-Attributions-Forschung erhalten möchte, dabei noch eine spannende Sidestory zum Hurrikan Harvey und allerlei aus der Geschichte der Wetter-, Klima- und Klimawandelforschung lesen möchte, bekommt hier genau das.

Fredi is the author of the popular science book " Angry Weather" and her work has been featured extensively in global media including the FT, Economist, Times of India, the Sun, Wall Street Journal, Telegraph, Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, BBC, and CNN. Or, in the words of a German radio station, it “provides the arguments for the Fridays for Future movement. That is, they do it quickly, before the event fades from people’s memories and other events have happened in the meantime. Secondly, and more importantly, disentangling predictable drivers of an extreme event like climate change from natural variability and changes in vulnerability and exposure will allow a better understanding of where risks are coming from, and in turn how they can be addressed. Das Problem sind nicht diejenigen, die nichts vom anthropogenen Klimawandel wissen oder ihn leugnen, sondern diejenigen – die überwiegende Mehrheit!Waking up late, eating blueberry crepes, watching movies with my family and having something delicious for dinner that I didn’t cook! It is, however, not this abstract measure of temperature that will cause loss and damage from climate change: instead, it is the impacts of climate change, which primarily manifest through rising sea levels and the changing risks of extreme weather events (droughts, heat waves, extreme precipitation), which often lead to large scale damage.

She leads several projects that are enhancing our understanding of the impacts of man-made climate change on natural and social systems, with a particular focus on Africa and India. Commentators will cite these as yet more examples of climate change, while those denying climate change will argue that these are rare but naturally occurring events. It is tragic that we seem – at least in the Anglo-Saxon culture – to put so much more weight on loss of property than loss of habitat or life even, but that bias can be turned to our advantage. Using peer-reviewed mathematical modelling, within three weeks the team estimates that climate change makes an event like Harvey three times more likely at the current state of change. I’ve been so lucky as to meet so many amazing people through Teams that have help me grow by giving support, promotion, advice and friendship.

Global mean temperatures of a degree above preindustrial temperatures and carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere above 400 parts per million manifest as rising sea levels and changes in the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather events. Mark Denny, author of Making Sense of Weather and Climate: The Science Behind the Forecasts'[A] thrilling work of nonfiction. In a previous era when smoking and lung cancer cases first began to appear in the courts, the tobacco companies would use the defence that nobody could be sure if this or that particular case was due to smoking or would have happened anyway. Summary: A description of the use of attribution science to assess the probability that anthropogenic-caused climate change is a factor in particular extreme weather events.