How Global Warming Fueled Five Extreme Weather Events

BRAD PLUMER and NADJA POPOVICH, NY Times: Science
Thu, 12/14/2017 - 9:07am

Scientists analyzed 27 extreme weather events from 2016 and found that global warming was a “significant driver” for most of them. We look at five cases.

Topics: global warming extreme weather events

Place your ad here
Loading...

BING NEWS:

Corn crop conditions improve as acres and prices decline
Corn prices down, acres in Texas and across U.S. are expected to follow as improved overall conditions could deliver above average yields.
04/23/2024 - 11:50 am | View Link
Climate change supercharged a heat dome, intensifying 2021 fire season, study finds
North America's 2021 fire season, including massive Northern California blazes, was made worse by a supercharged heat dome. What did the supercharging? Climate change.
04/21/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags
In Singapore, a new plant will turn CO2 from seawater and air into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also produce “green” hydrogen ...
04/21/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
My adult kids found themselves in nature. Will my youngest lose herself in her phone?
Salmon Time gave Scout, our oldest child, a reverence for wilderness and taught him that he can survive anywhere with the right skills and the right friends. He has since become an accomplished ...
04/21/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
Earth’s record hot streak might be a sign of a new climate era
Each of the past ten months has been the hottest on record – an unprecedented streak of unprecedented temperatures that has fueled alarm among climate scientists.
04/18/2024 - 6:30 pm | View Link
More

More Movie News

More Science News

E.P.A. Could Make Thousands of Pollution Deaths Vanish by Changing Its Math
NY Times, Monday - 05/20/2019 - 05:00 AM
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to adopt a new method for projecting the future health risks of air pollution that experts have said is not scientifically sound.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up
NY Times, Monday - 05/20/2019 - 04:19 AM
Worms are wriggling into Earth’s northernmost forests, creating major unknowns for climate-change models.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Fighting Ebola When Mourners Fight the Responders
NY Times, Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 12:58 PM
An Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo — the second-largest in history — is escalating in part because locals don’t trust health workers and government officials.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Fighting Ebola When Mourners Fight the Responders
NY Times, Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 05:00 AM
An Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo — the second-largest in history — is escalating in part because locals don’t trust health workers and government officials.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
What Does It Really Mean to Be 6 Weeks Pregnant?
NY Times, Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 08:26 AM
So-called ‘heartbeat’ legislation restricting abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy has started a conversation about when most women actually learn that they’re pregnant.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
In Cities Where It Once Reigned, Heroin Is Disappearing
NY Times, Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 05:00 AM
The rise of the more potent fentanyl in its place has put a generation of older users, who had managed their addiction, at far greater risk of overdose.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

How Global Warming Fueled Five Extreme Weather Events

Welcome to Wopular

MoviesWithButter : Our Sister Site

More Science News