Autor/es reacciones

María José Sanz

Scientific Director of the BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change

This is the most comprehensive review to date of the understanding of the influences of climate change on five types of extreme weather events: extreme temperatures, heavy rainfall, droughts, forest fires and tropical cyclones. This extends both the record of extreme weather impacts worldwide and the coverage of attribution studies across different events and regions, in particular the global south. The work represents an improvement over the analyses conducted in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Governmental Panel on Climate Change.

It indicates that the attribution of some of these events to a greater or lesser extent to climate change has so far been underestimated.

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