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Extreme weather: How is it connected to climate change?
Heatwaves, deadly floods and wildfires - this summer people are having to confront the link between extreme weather and climate change.
Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have been trapping heat in the atmosphere since the start of the industrial era. As a consequence, average temperatures have risen by 1.2C.
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This additional energy is unevenly distributed and bursts out in extremes like the ones we’ve been seeing this summer. Without reductions in global emissions, this cycle will keep going.
Here are four ways climate change is contributing to extreme weather.
- 1. Hotter, longer heatwaves
To understand the…