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posted by martyb on Tuesday July 31 2018, @08:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the hot-off-the-press! dept.

The unprecedented temperatures seen over Summer 2018 are a sign of things to come—and a direct result of climate change, according to new Oxford University research.

In the newly published report, researchers from the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the School of Geography and Environment, Oxford University, who worked in collaboration with the World Weather Attribution network (WWA), reveal that climate change more than doubled the likelihood of the European heatwave, which could come to be known as regular summer temperatures.

Dr. Friederike Otto, Deputy Director of the ECI at the University of Oxford, said: "What was once regarded as unusually warm weather will become commonplace – in some cases, it already has."

The research compares current temperatures with historical records at seven weather stations in northern Europe – two in Finland, one each in Denmark, the Irish Republic, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.

These stations were selected because current temperature data could be accessed in real time, and they possess digitised records extending back to the early 1900s. The scientists also used computer models to assess the impact of man-made climate change.

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-heatwave-triggered-climate.html

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @11:13AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @11:13AM (#715133)

    A Guardian article [theguardian.com] from mid-July discusses the recent weather in the context of climate change. It mentions thata La Nina [wikipedia.org], which has a cooling effect in much of the world (warming in Australia) at this time of year, is in progress.

    Pacifica's Rising up with Sonali [risingupwithsonali.com] did a segment (19-minute audio) on the same subject, with an interview of someone from 350.org.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @04:16PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @04:16PM (#715254)

    SO WICH IS IT COOLING OR HEATING YOU CANT KEEP YOU LIES STRIGHT ANY MORE!!1111

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @08:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @08:16PM (#715373)

      IS THIS TOPIC TOO COMPLEX FOR YOU?