Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change (World Weather Attribution)

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Otto is also a co-investigator on the international project World Weather Attribution, which assesses the human influence on extreme weather and has been profiled in the New York Times, Nature, and others. It is the people who have no responsibility for causing climate change who are now taking to the streets, the courtrooms, and hopefully soon all the circles where decisions are made. That is, they do it quickly, before the event fades from people’s memories and other events have happened in the meantime.

Dieses Buch war sprachlich sehr verständlich geschrieben (keine schwurbeligen Formulierungen), hatte an jeder Stelle einen argumentativen Zweck (kein Bullshit), war schnell gelesen (konzise) und überzeugend. Vielleicht lese ich die falschen Bücher, aber das hier ist das erste, das nicht davon ausgeht, dass das 2-Grad-Ziel überschritten werden wird. What has been harder to assess is the ability to pin a particular extreme weather event on man-made global warming. Fascynująca, a jednocześnie przerażająca to lektura, kiedy podążając za niemiecką badaczką, weźmiemy pod uwagę tendencję do zaprzeczania przez polityków i przestawicieli wielkich koncernów jakoby człowiek miał realny wpływ na pogodę.If flooding becomes more popular, permits for construction in what were once infrequent flood plains need to be re-evaluated. These two effects always occur together, never in isolation; however, since the dynamic effect in particular may vary wildly in strength and impact, the effect on the weather can differ greatly. It's a book about a paper and how the paper came to be, with little to no actual interesting facts other than how they wrote the paper and did the study. Using peer-reviewed mathematical modelling, within three weeks the team estimates that climate change makes an event like Harvey three times more likely at the current state of change.

Autorka nie przyjmuje pozycji ‚świat się kończy’, ale autentycznie podkreśla w jakim zdarzeniach ekstremalnych zmiany klimatu nie odegrały roli. In 2020 Climate Change Attribution was named one of MIT Tech Review's top ten breakthrough technologies. She is honest about the number of weather events they studied where climate change played little or no part and the kinds of events currently not amenable to this approach. Waking up late, eating blueberry crepes, watching movies with my family and having something delicious for dinner that I didn’t cook!Meet the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, you'll be equally enthralled with the skill and speed these folks exhibit. While the global elite was busy ignoring or actively denying human-caused climate change, the problem worsened and devastating weather events proved the science to be correct.

Ich find's gut, dass mal jemand außerhalb der Genderliteratur konsequent das Gendersternchen benutzt! The Weather Attribution Team has developed a way to connect localized extreme weather events to climate change. Secondly, and more importantly, disentangling predictable drivers of an extreme event like climate change from natural variability and changes in vulnerability and exposure will allow a better understanding of where risks are coming from, and in turn how they can be addressed.

Sir Richard Doll and collaborators did pioneering work to demonstrate the link between smoking and lung cancer in 1950, using novel statistical methods to overcome the charge that ‘correlation does not mean causation’. During the summer of 2018, people in France, the UK, Germany, India, North America, and many other places around the world not only experienced what climate change feels like but became aware that the very high temperatures they sought to avoid in the shade were not just weather but part of a changing climate. Friederike Otto, this gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather events—including deadly heat waves, forest fires, floods, and hurricanes—to climate change. Friederike Otto erklärt leicht verständlich im Vortragston, was Zuordnungswissenschaft kann und wie sie ab sofort und in Zukunft Klarheit bringen und so auf Entwicklungen in der Klimapolitik von Staaten, Konzernen, Versicherungen, Juristen, . Tied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest cyclone on record, Hurricane Harvey caused catastrophic flooding and over a hundred deaths in 2017.

Interesting read to learn more about weather phenomena and the question if they are related to climate change. We climate scientists refer to the changes in weather that follow these laws as the “thermodynamic effect.Attribution science climate forensics, or reverse engineering is a new discipline explained in this book with passion and verve by one of its creators. The Getting To Know series features interviews with makers, artists, designers and small business owners at all different stages of their careers.