According to recent studies, climate change has greatly increased the chance of extreme weather events worldwide in the past two years.
Analysis of extreme weather events revealed that global warming has increased the severity of the extreme events that occurred in 2021 and 2022 to an extent unimaginable before the era of fossil energy carriers.
“The extreme nature of these events is very concerning,” said Stephanie Herring of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). “We need to see if all of this indicates that the climate is warming faster than expected.”
The risk of droughts in California and Nevada has increased sixfold
Due to global warming and a strong La Niña weather phenomenon from October 2020 to September 2021, while the likelihood of heavy rains flooding parts of the UK in May 2021 has increased by one and a half times. The probability of heat ravaging China in February 2021 has increased from four to twenty times due to human-induced global warming, while the risk of a devastating drought like the Iranian drought of 2021 is fifty percent higher.
The 2021 South African bushfire can also be partially attributed to climate change, and the chance of it occurring has increased by 90 percent due to the massive amount of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere.
For example, the climate crisis has increased the probability of rainfall that caused devastating floods in Nigeria, Niger and Chad last year by about eighty times.
Stephanie Herring warns that current temperature values are often far higher than any recent historical benchmark and are pushing humanity into a new and dangerous state. in October 2021
The heat wave in South Korea, for example, was so severe that it is usually considered a once-in-6,250-year event.
However, climate models predict that this will be the new normal in South Korea by 2060 if we don’t radically reduce emissions of planet-warming gases.
(Source: The Guardian, MTI. Editorial: Floods caused by heavy rains in the Chadian capital, November 13, 2022. Photo: Abdallah Adam/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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