Around 20 per cent of the world’s population experienced days with unusual heat made twice as likely by climate change this winter.
ADVERTISEMENTWhen disaster strikes, it becomes painfully obvious how much human-caused climate change is making our world a more dangerous place.
In recent months, attribution studies have found that it doubled the likelihood of Central Europe’s deadly floods in September, and made the hot, dry weather that drove January’s LA wildfires 35 per cent more likely. The heatwave that left students fainting in South Sudan last month was ten times more likely to occur in our era of fossil fuel burning.
However, less notice is paid to the way…