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Extreme Event Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at understanding how human-induced changes in the global climate system affect the probability, severity, and other characteristics of extreme events such as hurricanes and heat waves.

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Record-Breaking 2023 Marine Heatwaves

July 2025
Tianyun Dong et al.
Science
This study reports on record-breaking marine heat waves in 2023, which depart from historic averages in duration, extent, and intensity.Read More →

Climate Change Has Increased the Odds of Extreme Regional Forest Fire Years Globally

July 2025
John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, Alison C. Cullen, Mojtaba Sadegh, Emily L. Williams, Marco Turco, Matthew W. Jones
Nature Communications
This study finds that human-driven climate change "rais[es] the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe."Read More →

Heavy Rain in July 2025 Texas Floods Locally Intensified by Human-Driven Climate Change

July 2025
Davide Faranda, Mireia Ginesta, Tommaso Alberti
ClimaMeter
This study determines that the extreme Texas floods were associated with exceptional meteorological conditions, which cannot be explained by natural variability.Read More →

Climate-Change-Induced Seismicity: The Recent Onset of Seasonal Microseismicity at the Grandes Jorasses, Mont Blanc Massif, France/Italy

June 2025
Verena Simon, Toni Kraft, Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Agnès Helmstetter, Tobias Diehl
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
This study links climate change-induced increases in snow and glacier melt to increased annual earthquake activity in the alps.Read More →

Risk of Extreme Climate Impacts on European Norway Spruce Forest: Drought and Frost in the Climate Emergency

June 2025
Duncan Ray, Fai Fung, Jennifer Pirret, Fiona Plenderleith, Felix Trotter, Maurizio Marchi
Climatic Change
This study examines the risk of tree stress caused by climatic extreme events, particularly hot droughts and late-spring frosts.Read More →

Climate Change and the Escalation of Global Extreme Heat

May 2025
Giguere, Otto, Tannenbaum, Vahlberg, et al.
Climate Central, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, World Weather Attribution
This report assesses the influence that climate change has had on heat waves from May 1, 2024 to May 1, 2025, finding that human-driven climate change is making heat events longer and more likely.Read More →

Heat Action Day Report: Climate Change and the Escalation of Global Extreme Heat

May 2025
Otto Giguere et al.
Worldwide Weather Attribution
This study finds that, over the past 12 months, 4 billion people experienced at least 30 extra days with extreme heat and climate change made extreme heat days at least twice as likely.Read More →

Hurricane Ida’s Blackout-Heatwave Compound Risk in a Changing Climate

May 2025
Kairui Feng, Ning Lin, Avantika Gori, Dazhi Xi, Min Ouyang, and Michael Oppenheimer
Nature Communications
This study examines the increased tropical cyclone-blackout-heatwave compound risk in Louisiana and finds that the return period of major events is expected to decrease by 17 times in this century. Read More →

Anthropogenic Forcing Dominates Changes in Compound Long-Duration Dry and Heat Extremes in China

May 2025
Fengchun Ye, Pinya Wang, Yang Yang, Lili Ren, Jianping Tang, Hong Liao
Climatic Change
This study finds anthropogenic forcing to be a driving factor in compound dry and heat extremes in China.Read More →

Detection and Attribution of Trends of Meteorological Extremes in Central America

April 2025
H. G. Hidalgo et al.
Climatic Change
This study examines whether extreme rainfall and temperature indices are associated with human-driven climate change or could be explained by natural causes.Read More →

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