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2 - Extreme Weather

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2019

By
Emily Shuckburgh
Edited by
Duncan Needham  and
Julius Weitzdörfer
Duncan Needham
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Julius Weitzdörfer
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

2016 was the warmest year on Earth since records began in 1850. The second warmest year was 2015 and the third warmest was 2014. In recent years, weather records have been broken more and more often with severe heatwaves, floods, and other extreme weather around the world. The risks of these extreme weather events have been shown to have increased as a consequence of climate change linked to human activities. This chapter discusses the scientific evidence surrounding the causes and consequences of climate change, and the prospects for the future.
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Extremes , pp. 24 - 45
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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CarbonBrief, Attributing Extreme Weather to Climate Change, www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-affects-extreme-weather-around-the-world (24 July 2018).Google Scholar
CarbonBrief, CarbonBrief – Clear on Climate, www.carbonbrief.org (24 July 2018).Google Scholar
HRH The Prince of Wales, Juniper, T., and Shuckburgh, E., Annex to The Ladybird Expert Guide to Climate Change, www.rmets.org/ladybird-annex/ (24 July 2018).Google Scholar
HRH The Prince of Wales, Juniper, T., and Shuckburgh, E., Climate Change (A Ladybird Expert Book) (Penguin, 2017).Google Scholar
Liverman, D., ‘Survival into the Future’, in Shuckburgh, E. (ed.), Survival (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 205–224.Google Scholar
Slingo, J., ‘Development of climate science’, in Krude, T. and Baker, S.T. (eds.), Development: Mechanisms of Change (Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 85–107.Google Scholar
Watson, B., ‘Risk in the context of (human-induced) climate change’, in Skinns, L., Scott, M., and Cox, T. (eds.), Risk (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 159–180.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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