Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change (World Weather Attribution)

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Meet the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, you’ll be equally enthralled with the skill and speed these folks exhibit. The influence my native country has on me works from the deepness of my heart in the forms of memories, the love for my family and from the land. The other controversial element is to use the results of attribution science in lawsuits for damages against fossil fuel companies who have contributed to climate change. Immediacy bias is important to peoples' attention (see my connecting some thoughts from my previous non-fiction read to this book).

Or, in the words of a German radio station, it “provides the arguments for the Fridays for Future movement. Mark Denny, author of Making Sense of Weather and Climate: The Science Behind the Forecasts'[A] thrilling work of nonfiction. These studies analyse specific individual events, and establish how much they can be attributed to climate change. In scientific reports, political debates and the media, the measure of global climate change around the world is global mean (average) temperature rise. There is a very small group of scientists worldwide who are currently doing this; the author is one of those scientists.Instead, the book goes off into the basics of global warming and the politics of climate denialism, and I really wanted to learn more about what's new now, not what's happened over recent decades. The team Otto works on runs simulations based on the assumption that no human generated greenhouse gases were emitted and compares that to the simulations run on contemporary (sometimes, real-time) weather events. If we change all these factors—the temperature, composition of the atmosphere, and cloud formation (and we are changing them)—then we also alter the circulation. Over the last few winters, however, the south of England has experienced precisely this dual effect: More low-pressure areas from the Atlantic have brought more rain than would have been expected in pre-industrial times. It hasn’t exactly been the best of times, though, with powerful interests and a lot of money devoted to characterizing the laws of physics as a hoax.

Watch a video of Fredi Otto explaining how attribution science provides the evidence to show how climate change affects extreme weather events.

Freiderike Otto the rockstar of Climate Change field has written a wonderful book explaining her Attribution Concept where she has made a compelling evidence based argument atrributing extreme weather disasters to climate change. Secondly, and more importantly, disentangling predictable drivers of an extreme event like climate change from natural variability and changes in vulnerability and exposure will allow a better understanding of where risks are coming from, and in turn how they can be addressed. From a leading scientist, this gripping nonfiction book explains how recent weather disasters—including heat waves, massive forest fires, and hurricanes—can be definitively linked to climate change, through the revolutionary method of World Weather Attribution.

A neat idea to twine together two strands: first, Otto and team's work in responding to a particular weather event in Texas and, second, the broader story about her team's initialization, development, academic and political reception, and grand plans. Otto's narrative is a great reminder that while the weather may be angry, our response to it should not be despair, but informed, collective action.If both warming and circulation change in the same direction, the overall effect will be stronger and disaster may be looming. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Israel Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Sri Lanka Suriname Svalbard and Jan Mayen Swaziland Sweden Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. Global greenhouse gas emissions are still on the rise (the current temporary dip due to a world in lockdown does not change this picture). In 2020 Climate Change Attribution was named one of MIT Tech Review's top ten breakthrough technologies.

I highly recommend this book which is both easy to read (because it is well written) and hard to read (because of what we learn). When floodwater breaches riverbanks, we first need to determine where the rain has actually fallen: Did it fall where the flooding occurred, or farther upstream? It is the people who have no responsibility for causing climate change who are now taking to the streets, the courtrooms, and hopefully soon all the circles where decisions are made. This is a new area of science that looks at past and current weather events, heat waves, hurricanes, cold snap or excessive rain.

Vielleicht lese ich die falschen Bücher, aber das hier ist das erste, das nicht davon ausgeht, dass das 2-Grad-Ziel überschritten werden wird. Each chapter tells a bit more of the story of the science behind the scenes, alongside events on the ground. It's a book about a paper and how the paper came to be, with little to no actual interesting facts other than how they wrote the paper and did the study. It is a powerful and important number, but since we do not experience it directly, this number only allows (and crucially, requires! Ich find's gut, dass mal jemand außerhalb der Genderliteratur konsequent das Gendersternchen benutzt!