Scientists link extreme weather to climate change

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cientists have linked climate change to several extreme weather events that hit Australia last year, including city melting heatwaves, record hot spring temperatures and the sweltering conditions that greeted the G20 meeting in Brisbane.

They are part of a series of new studies – published in a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society – examining the emerging scientific area of extreme weather "attribution"

It explores the causes of disasters and unusual events across the globe in 2014, including six in Australia.

Read Tom Arup’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “How climate change influenced Australia's extreme weather in 2014.”