World Weather
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| Originally published | 1998 |
| Authors | Rachel Sparks Linfield |
| Penny Coltman | |
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| ID | 2094812 |
About World Weather
World Weather is by Penny Coltman & Rachel Linfield. It a reports and explanations text for Year 5/P6 and is part of the Pelican Big Books fiction/non-fiction.
Mediterranean fires: Evacuations as new blazes break out in Greece
... A team of climate scientists - the World Weather Attribution group - said this month s intense heatwave in Southern Europe, North America and China would have been The fires have dealt a blow to the summer tourism industry, especially in Greece, where the industry accounts for one in five jobs and is vital for Rhodes and many other islands...
Deadly Mediterranean wildfires kill more than 40
... A team of climate scientists - the World Weather Attribution group - said this month s intense heatwave in Southern Europe, North America and China would have been On the island of Rhodes more than 20,000 people have been evacuated from homes and resorts in the south in recent days...
Europe and US heatwaves near 'impossible' without climate change
... Scientists in the UK, US and Netherlands in the World Weather Attribution group studied the recent heatwaves to identify the fingerprint of climate change...
El Niño planet-warming weather phase has begun
... It will also impact World Weather, potentially bringing drought to Australia, weakening India s monsoon and more rain to the southern US...
Extreme weather: What is it and how is it connected to climate change?
... Such an intense heatwave would have been virtually impossible without climate change, according to the World Weather Attribution network...
Durban floods: South Africa floods kill more than 300
... At the start of the year, the region was hit by three cyclones and two tropical storms in six weeks, which primarily affected Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi and inflicted widescale damage with 230 reported deaths according to the World Weather Attribution (WWA)...
Arctic heat record is like Mediterranean, says UN
... The agency said it had added the Arctic Circle to its World Weather and Climate Extremes archive under a new category for high temperatures in the region...
Madagascar food crisis: How a woman helped save her village from starvation
... The recent influential World Weather Attribution report on the drought in Madagascar, which included work from Dr Rondro Barimalala, a Malagasy climate scientist, disputed this...
Europe and US heatwaves near 'impossible' without climate change
By Georgina RannardBBC Climate & Science reporter
The heatwaves battering Europe and the US In July would have been " virtually impossible" without human-induced Climate Change , a scientific study says.
Global Warming from burning fossil fuels also made the heatwave affecting parts of China 50 times more likely.
Climate Change meant the heatwave in Southern Europe was 2. 5C hotter, the study finds.
Almost all societies remain unprepared for deadly extreme heat, experts warn.
The study's authors say its findings highlight the importance of The World adapting to higher temperatures because they are no longer " rare".
" Heat is among the deadliest types of disaster, " says Julie Arrighi from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and also one of the authors.
Countries must build heat-resistant homes, create " cool centres" for people to find shelter, and find ways to cool cities including planting more trees, she says.
In July , temperature records were broken in parts of China, the southern US and Spain. for extreme heat.
Experts say extreme heat can be a very serious threat to life, especially among the elderly. According to one study, during Last Year 's heatwaves in Europe.
" This study confirms what we knew before. It shows again just how much Climate Change plays a role in what We Are currently experiencing, " said Friederike Otto from Imperial College London.
Climate scientists say decades of humans pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are causing global temperatures to rise.
But not all Extreme Weather events can immediately be linked directly to Climate Change because natural weather patterns can also play a part.
Scientists in the UK, US and Netherlands in the World Weather Attribution group studied the recent heatwaves to identify the fingerprint of Climate Change .
Using computer models, they simulated a world without The Effects of emissions pumped into the atmosphere to the real-world temperatures seen during the heatwaves.
The North American heatwave was 2°C (3. 6°F) hotter and the heatwave in China was 1°C hotter because of Climate Change , The Scientists concluded.
The World has warmed 1. 1C compared to the pre-industrial period before humans began burning fossil fuels.
If temperature rise reaches 2C, which many experts warn is very likely as countries fail to reduce their emissions quickly enough, these events will occur every two to five years, The Scientists say.
The study also considered The Role of El Niño, a naturally occurring powerful climate fluctuation that began in June. It leads to higher global temperatures as warm waters rise to The Surface in the tropical Pacific Ocean and push heat into the air.
The study concluded that El Niño probably played a small part but that increased temperatures from burning fossil fuels was the main driver in the more intense heatwaves.
A run of climate records have fallen in recent weeks, including global average temperatures and sea surface temperatures particularly in the North Atlantic.
Experts say the speed and timing is " unprecedented" and warn that more records could tumble in The Coming weeks and months.
Dangerous wildfires in Greece forced thousands of people to evacuate hotels at the weekend. Experts say that the hot and dry weather created favourable conditions for fire to spread more easily.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com