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"At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the
planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how severely
human-caused global heating is supercharging extreme weather.
The impossible heatwaves have taken lives across North America, Europe and
Asia, with scientific analyses showing that they would have had virtually zero
chance of happening without the extra heat trapped by fossil fuel emissions.
Further studies have assessed how much worse global heating has made the
consequences of extreme weather, with shocking results. Millions of people, and
many thousands of newborn babies, would not have died prematurely without the
extra human-caused heat, according to the estimates.
In total, studies calculating the role of the climate crisis in what are now
unnatural disasters show 550 heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires
have been made significantly more severe or more frequent by global heating.
This roll-call of suffering is only a glimpse of the true damage, however. Most
extreme weather events have not been analysed by scientists.
The new database of hundreds of studies that analyse the role of global heating
in extreme weather was compiled by the website Carbon Brief and shared with the
Guardian. It is the only comprehensive assessment and provides overwhelming
proof that the climate emergency is here today, taking lives and livelihoods in
all corners of the world.
The studies have examined the impacts resulting from about 1.3C of global
heating to date. The prospect of 2.5C to 3.0C, which is where the world is
headed, is therefore catastrophic, warn the scientists. They urge the world’s
nations meeting at the Cop29 climate summit in Azerbaijan to deliver deep and
rapid cuts to carbon emissions and to fund the protection desperately needed by
many communities against now-inevitable climate disasters."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
