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How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?

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By Kevin T Smiley, Deepti Singh, Jennifer R. Marlon
| Japan Today Verified
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all? For many years, scientists could answer that question only in general terms. They knew that human-caused climate change was increasing the frequency or intensity of some kinds of extreme weather, but determining its influence on a particular event was much more difficult.
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“Extremologistas”: a ciência que tenta analisar os eventos extremos

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By Kevin T Smiley, Deepti Singh
| Fast Company Brazil Verified
Quando uma onda de calor devastadora, um furacão, uma enchente ou um incêndio florestal atingem uma região, muita gente faz a mesma pergunta: até que ponto a mudança climática causada pela ação humana influenciou esse evento? Por muitos anos, os cientistas só conseguiam responder a essa questão em termos gerais.
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How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?

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By Kevin T Smiley, Deepti Singh, Jennifer R. Marlon
| Phys.org Verified
Scientists have the highest confidence in extreme attribution for events with temperature extremes and the lowest confidence for convective storms, such as tornadoes. The bubble size is proportional to the number of extreme event attribution studies conducted. Credit: National Academy of Sciences When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?
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