Haciendo la conexión climática

The document argues that reporting on extreme weather without mentioning climate change is incomplete and potentially inaccurate. It provides specific phrasing and examples for connecting various weather phenomena—such as heatwaves, droughts, floods, and hurricanes—to global warming, while highlighting the role of attribution science in quantifying these links. It also recommends tools like the Climate Central 'Climate Change Index' and World Weather Attribution for real-time data.

• Attribution science allows scientists to quantify the specific impact of climate change on individual extreme weather events, such as the 2022 heatwave in India, which became "100 veces más probable debido al cambio climático".
• Climate change intensifies various types of extreme weather: it makes heatwaves more frequent and intense, alters the water cycle to increase drought risk, and causes the atmosphere to hold more water vapor, leading to heavier rainfall.
• Ocean warming and sea-level rise contribute to more powerful tropical cyclones and increased coastal flooding. Higher ocean temperatures provide "combustible para los huracanes", increasing their magnitude and potentially slowing their movement, which extends the duration of wind and rain impacts.
• Human-caused climate change exacerbates the warm and dry conditions that allow wildfires to ignite and spread, contributing to millions of acres burned in Canada and the western United States.

APA

CCNow (2023). Haciendo la conexión climática. Covering Climate Now. https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/haciendo-la-conexion-climatica/

Chicago

CCNow. Haciendo la conexión climática. Covering Climate Now, 2023. https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/haciendo-la-conexion-climatica/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ccnow2023haciendo, author = {CCNow}, title = {{Haciendo la conexión climática}}, institution = {Covering Climate Now}, year = {2023}, month = jun, url = {https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/haciendo-la-conexion-climatica/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }