Election FactCheck: are larger, more frequent storms predicted due to climate change?

Malcolm Turnbull was correct in his observations
about storms and climate change, technically.

In the aftermath of the deadly East Coast Low that swamped eastern Australia, dumping massive amounts of rain in early June, the prime minister toured flood-affected Launceston and announced emergency relief funding.

Turnbull told reporters that larger and more frequent storms were forecast by climate scientists but cautioned that no individual storm could be attributed to global warming.

Is he right?

The Conversation asked the prime minister’s office for sources to support his statement but did not hear back before publication deadline. Nevertheless, we can test his statement against recent published and peer-reviewed research on this question.

Read the piece on The Conversation by a Reader from School of Earth Sciences a the University of Melbourne, Kevin Walsh  - “Election FactCheck: are larger, more frequent storms predicted due to climate change?”