WASHINGTON (AP) – A new scientific report finds man-made climate change played some role in two dozen extreme weather events around the world in 2015. But it also detected no global warming fingerprints in a handful of other weird weather instances.
An annual report released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looks at 30 different strange weather events around the world for 2015 and finds that climate change was a factor, however small or large, in 24 instances. They include 11 cases of high heat, as well as unusual winter sunshine in the United Kingdom, Alaskan wildfires and odd “sunny day” flooding in Miami.
Using accepted scientific techniques, 116 scientists from around the world calculated whether extreme weather events were goosed by global warming.