Until the world moves away from fossil fuels and reduces emissions to net zero, extreme weather will continue to become more intense
Climate change fuelled extreme weather in 2023; expect more records in 2024
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Twelve months – WWA without Geert Jan
On 12 of October 2021 – a year ago today – our co-founder, friend and colleague Geert Jan van Oldenborgh passed away.
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, 1961–2021
With deepest sadness we must share with you the news that Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, dear friend, amazing scientist, co-founder and co-leader of World Weather Attribution, husband and father, and a wonderful human, passed away on 12 October 2021.
Pathways and Pitfalls in extreme event attribution
Experiences from the World Weather Attribution collaboration: We attempt to answer the question whether and to what extent the likelihood and intensity of an observed event changed due to the anthropogenic modification of the Earth’s climate using a method called extreme event attribution.
A limited role for unforced internal variability in 20th century warming
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.