Friederike Otto

Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely

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Dr. Sarah Adams

WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been ...

Study says it’s likely a warmer world made deadly Dubai downpours heavier

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that just flooded Dubai and other parts of the Persian Gulf, ...

Global warming was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought, study finds

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Dr. Sarah Adams

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of last year’s severe drought in the ...

A critical climate goal may be ‘deader than a doornail,’ and scientists are bitterly divided over it

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Dr. Sarah Adams

For years, the fight against climate change has been symbolized by one number: 1.5. Ever since countries agreed in 2015 to an ...

Nasty drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran wouldn’t have happened without climate change, study finds

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Dr. Sarah Adams

A three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused ...