New Research Strengthens the Link Between Warming and Extreme Weather

There is an increasing body of evidence connecting climate change and severe weather events. In 2004, a group of researchers published one of the first studies linking human-caused climate change to a specific extreme weather event , the 2003 European summer heatwave, which killed over 70,000 people across Europe. The scientists determined that human involvement had at least doubled the risk of such an extreme heatwave, prompting other researchers to investigate the links between human-driven climate change and severe weather. The UK-based…