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heatwave strikes the city. Temperatures rise
well over 40 degrees for several consecutive days.
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| David Karoly - part of a global network trying to find the fingerprints of climate change on extreme weather. |
Train tracks buckle. Trees wilt. Lives are at risk.
Sure, summers in the city are typically hot. But this seems
a little more intense than most, and something similar happened just last year.
Is this climate change?
That's the question increasingly being asked by communities
around the world as droughts, heatwaves and floods bring devastation to their
door.
For a long time, climate scientists had been hesitant to
answer. Weather is hostage to natural variability, making it chaotic and
therefore difficult to separate out what role climate change is playing in a
single extreme event from all the other noise in the system.
Read Tom Arup’s Age
story - “Looking for the fingerprints of climate changes on today's extremeweather”.
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