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| David Karoly. |
The thermometer
pushed 50 degrees C at times as Australia sweltered thought its hottest year on
record in 2013. So was this the effect of human-induced climate change – or
just a very hot year?
While politicians confidently gave their opinions, climate
scientist David Karoly decided to dig deeper.
He ran a study which concluded it
was “virtually impossible” to have reached those temperatures without
humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions.
“This couldn’t happen without climate change … it’s the
first time that any study has been able to make such strong conclusions,” he
says. That study landed on the front page of the New York Times, which
described it as “perhaps the most definitive statement climate scientists have
made tying a specific weather event to global warming”.
Read more about this here: “Tracking climate change - in real time”
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