{"id":163,"date":"2022-08-24T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:58:49","slug":"2-7-dangerous-weather","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/endnotes\/how-our-planet-is-changing\/2-7-dangerous-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"2.7 Dangerous Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friederike Otto<\/a><\/p>\n

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    \nmost people are experiencing it through extreme weather events<\/q> Harrington, L. J., and Otto, F. E. L., \u2018Adapting attribution science to the climate extremes of tomorrow\u2019<\/cite>, Environmental Research Letters<\/span>, 13 (12), 2018: Article 12306, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/aaf4cc<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nimpact on weather on a daily basis<\/q> Sippel, S., et al., \u2018Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale\u2019<\/cite>, Nature Climate Change<\/span>, 10 (1), 2020: 35\u201341, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41558-019-0666-7<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nin a warmer climate more extreme heatwaves would occur<\/q>\u2003National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change<\/span><\/cite>(Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016), https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17226\/21852<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nAttribution science is straightforward in theory<\/q> Otto, F. E. L., \u2018Attribution of weather and climate events\u2019<\/cite>, Annual Review of Environment and Resources<\/span>, 42, 2017: 627\u201346, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-environ-102016-060847<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \nOver the past decade the science has progressed<\/q> Van Oldenborgh, G. J., et al., \u2018Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution\u2019<\/cite>, Climate Change<\/span>, 166 (1\u20132), 2021: Article 13, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10584-021-03071-7<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \n\u2018Human-induced climate change is already affecting\u2019<\/q> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, \u2018Summary for policymakers\u2019<\/cite>, in Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/span>, ed. V. Masson-Delmotte et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press), https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nthe case of Hurricane Harvey<\/q> Risser, M. D., and Wehner, M. F., \u2018Attributable human-induced changes in the likelihood and magnitude of the observed extreme precipitation during Hurricane Harvey\u2019<\/cite>, Geophysical Research Letters<\/span>, 44 (24), 2017: 12457\u201364, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/2017GL075888<\/a>; van Oldenborgh, G. J., et al., \u2018Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017\u2019<\/cite>, Environmental Research Letters<\/span>, 12 (12), 2017: Article 124009, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/aa9ef2<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \noverall costs of the rainfall associated with the storm<\/q> Frame, D. J., et al., \u2018The economic costs of Hurricane Harvey attributable to climate change\u2019<\/cite>, Climate Change<\/span>, 160 (2), 2020: 271\u201381, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10584-020-02692-8<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \n70,000 fewer people would have been affected<\/q> Strauss, B. H., et al., \u2018Economic damages from Hurricane Sandy attributable to sea level rise caused by anthropogenic climate change\u2019<\/cite>, Nature Communications<\/span>, 12, 2021: Article 2720, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-021-22838-1<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nslower-moving storms mean that more rain can be dumped<\/q> Seneviratne, S. I., et al., \u2018Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate\u2019<\/cite> in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Change<\/span>, ed. V. Masson-Delmotte et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press), https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Friederike Otto All online sources accessed on 28 July 2022 most people are experiencing it through extreme weather events Harrington, L. J., and Otto, F. E. L., \u2018Adapting attribution science to the climate extremes of tomorrow\u2019, Environmental Research Letters, 13 (12), 2018: Article 12306, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/aaf4cc. impact on weather on a daily basis Sippel, S., et…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-essay.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}