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Sam Fraser-Baxter

Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

Our latest analysis explores the role of human-induced climate change in the southeastern Australian bushfires in 2019–2020.

10 January, 2020 | Wildfire | Australasia

Rapid attribution of the extreme rainfall in Texas from Tropical Storm Imelda

Flooding in Texas

A new rapid analysis concludes that the extreme rainfall and flooding caused by Tropical Storm Imelda was made more likely and intense due to global warming.

27 September, 2019 | Extreme rainfall, Storms | North America

Human contribution to the record-breaking July 2019 heatwave in Western Europe

Paris plage in a heatwave

After the extreme heat that took place in the last week of June 2019, a second record-breaking heat wave struck Western Europe and Scandinavia at the end of July 2019.

02 August, 2019 | Heatwave | Europe

Human contribution to record-breaking June 2019 heatwave in France

Shaded windows, Photo by Lagos04 on Unsplash

A heatwave struck large parts of Europe during the last week of June 2019, breaking several historical records at single locations in France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Spain.

02 July, 2019 | Heatwave | Europe

A limited role for unforced internal variability in 20th century warming

Photo by Todd Turner on Unsplash

New Research published in the Journal of Climate sheds new light on the long-standing question of how much of the observed changes in Earth’s temperature are due to natural ocean cycles. The short answer is, very little.

20 May, 2019 | News | Global

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