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Most Active Hurricane Season Was Also Wetter Because of Climate Change

April 12, 2022
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Earlier attribution research have quantified the results of local weather change on particular person Atlantic storms: For example, researchers estimated that as much as 38 p.c of the intense rainfall that Hurricane Harvey dumped on southeastern Texas in August 2017 was attributable to local weather change. Dr. Reed was among the many researchers who confirmed that local weather change additionally performed a job in Hurricane Florence in 2018 and Hurricane Dorian in 2019.

The brand new research is uncommon in that it examined the results of local weather change not on a single hurricane however on a full hurricane season, together with not solely the headline-grabbing storms but additionally the seemingly odd ones. Dr. Reed stated the findings supplied sturdy proof that the anthropogenic affect was not an anomaly confined to large occasions like Harvey.

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“In case you simply do that objectively by a complete season, you get related outcomes,” he stated.

Rosimar Rios-Berrios, a analysis meteorologist on the Nationwide Heart for Atmospheric Analysis who was not concerned with the brand new research, stated that analyzing a full hurricane season slightly than particular person storms supplied the next diploma of confidence that the findings precisely mirrored the position of local weather change.

“There’s a whole lot of energy in finding out particular person occasions, however in the long run, a single occasion just isn’t sufficient as a result of each hurricane is completely different,” she stated.

A separate evaluation launched on Monday discovered that local weather change additionally almost certainly elevated the depth of the rainfall from two vicious tropical storms that battered southeastern Africa earlier this 12 months. However the researchers stated that due to a scarcity of high-quality climate knowledge for that area, they may not measure the exact affect of worldwide warming on these storms.

Dr. Reed famous that the identical methodology his group employed may very well be used to quantify the affect of local weather change on a storm in near actual time — or as an instance how a lot worse storms will get if nations proceed to burn fossil fuels.

The research revealed on Tuesday in contrast the 2020 hurricane season as we skilled it with the hypothetical 2020 hurricane season in a world that has not been warmed by human actions. Because the nineteenth century, the burning of oil, fuel and coal has elevated common international temperatures by 1.1 levels Celsius, or 2.7 levels Fahrenheit. It’s also potential to check the season as skilled with the model which may happen after, say, 1.5 or 2 levels of warming — the brink past which scientists say extremely damaging storms turn out to be considerably extra possible.

“It’s essential to not plan for the 2020 hurricane season sooner or later,” Dr. Reed stated. “It’s to plan for what the 2020 hurricane season plus local weather change would appear to be sooner or later.”

Raymond Zhong contributed reporting.

Supply: NY Times

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