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Scientists link extreme weather with climate change
Sunday July 03, 2011 02:44:46 PM,
IANS
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London: Climate change
seems to have triggered extreme weather that has wreaked
destruction all over the globe during the last decade.
After more than 20 years of denial, experts are now convinced that
greenhouse emissions are to be blamed for the heavy storms, floods
and droughts which have made global headlines.
Peter Stott, a leading climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley
Centre in Exeter, said: "It's very clear we're in a changed
climate now which means there's more moisture in the atmosphere
and the potential for stronger storms and heavier rainfall is
clearly there."
The U-turn is a radical departure from the previous standpoint and
was made by a new international alliance of climate researchers
from around the world.
The coalition will be drafting a report which will be published
during a meeting at Denver's World Climate Research Programme
later this year, according to the Daily Mail.
The move is likely to spark a controversy as scientists have
avoided linking single exceptional weather events with climate
change. However, they now believe it is no longer plausible to say
extreme weather is merely 'consistent' with climate change.
Instead, the coalition wants to analyse each event to see whether
it is probable that the increase in global temperature in the last
century has contributed to or caused it.
According to Stott, studies are already underway to assess the
European heatwave in 2003 - when up to 35,000 people died of
heat-related causes - and the British floods in 2000 following the
wettest autumn in England and Wales since records began in 1766.
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