Three 2016 extremes 'not ... possible' without human warming

For the first time, an annual report issued by the American Meteorological Society has found that the extreme magnitudes of three weather events in 2016 “was not possible without the influence of human-caused climate change.”

Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 from a Climate Perspective, published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), is AMS’s sixth annual report on extreme weather events. It was officially released and presented on December 13 at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in New Orleans.

The report includes 27 peer-reviewed scientific papers. Authors of those papers examined 21 different extreme weather events around the globe in 2016 – including wildfires in North America and Australia, droughts in South Africa and Brazil, cold snaps in Eastern China, and an anomalous body of warm water in the Pacific Ocean.

Read the Yale Climate Connections story by Bruce Lieberman - “Three 2016 extremes 'not ... possible' without human warming.”

Climate scientists reveal their fears for the future

Climate scientists rarely speak publicly about their personal views. 

But in the wake of some extreme weather events in Australia, the specialists who make predictions about our climate reveal they're experiencing sometimes deep anxieties. Kerry Brewster reports.

Watch the ABC Lateline story - “Climate scientists reveal their fears for the future."

Cranking Up The Intensity: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events

Climate change is now influencing all extreme weather events – with some of the most severe climate impacts occurring in 2016, our latest report has found.

Cranking Up The Intensity: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events finds that while the links between climate change and some extreme weather events such as bushfires and heatwaves are well-established, the evidence linking climate change to storms and heavy rainfall is also growing.

Read the Climate Council story - “Cranking Up The Intensity: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events.”

50 months to save the world

We have just 50 months to save the world.

The Guardian newspaper “interactive” about the matter warrants our contemplation.

The newspaper says we have just 50 months to go before the dice become loaded against us in terms of keeping under two degree temperature rise.

Interestingly, the global temperature increase over pre-industrial levels is now just .8 of a degree and already the world is experiencing devastating weather events.

The available documentation and science illustrates conclusively that the much discussed two degree increase is already cast in stone and some are now considering how the people of the world learn to live with a four degree increase.

Take a look at “50 months to save the world”.