Severe water shortages in Europe, the U.S. and China over the summer were made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study.
Researchers from World Weather Attribution, a group of scientists from around the world who study the link between extreme weather and climate change, say this type of drought would normally happen only once every 400 years across the Northern Hemisphere if not for human-caused climate change. Now they expect these conditions to repeat every 20 years, given how much the weather has warmed.
“The impacts are very clear to people and are hitting hard,” he said, “not just in poor countries, like the flooding [in] Pakistan .... but also in some of theTo figure out the influence of climate change on drying in the Northern Hemisphere, scientists analyzed weather data, computer simulations and soil moisture throughout the regions, excluding tropical areas. They found that climate change made dry soil conditions much more likely over the last several months.
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