New study links global warming to Hurricane Sandy and other extreme weather events | John Abraham

The paper finds that global warming is putting extreme weather on steroids

One of the hottest areas of climate research these days is on the potential connections between human emissions, global warming, and extreme weather. Will global warming make extreme weather more common or less common? More severe or less severe?

New research, just published today in Nature Climate Change helps to answer that question by approaching the problem in a novel way. In short yes, human emissions of greenhouse gases have made certain particular weather events more severe. Let's investigate how they arrived at this conclusion.