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The value of attributing extreme events to climate change | Explained

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Just a couple of decades ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argued that individual weather events could not be attributed to climate change. The science has since evolved, albeit with all its attendant uncertainties, and now we regularly hear of researchers having been able to attribute some individual extreme events to climate…

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Something changed about cyclone formation in the 1990s | Explained

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A visualisation of all tropical cyclone tracks over South and Southeast Asia that formed in 1985-2005, in six-hour intervals. The colour scheme denotes wind intensities on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Storms remnants are not shown. | Photo Credit: Nilfanion/NASA, Public domain Numerous studies have reported trends in various climate variables over the Indian subcontinent. A decreasing…

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