An Oxford University professor says it’s important to distinguish between whether climate change causes extreme weather conditions or if it increases them?
An Oxford University professor says it’s important to distinguish between whether climate change causes extreme weather conditions or if it increases them? Speaking at a conference in Ireland geoscientist Prof. Myles Allen said that in many cases climate change increases the frequency of storms and other weather incidents rather than creates them. He said that in many cases the increase in frequency increase may once in 80 years when previously it was once in 100 years. He says that is “not nothing but is not enormous either”. However he stressed that while that would still mean an incident was once in a lifetime it was important in scientific terms. Prof. Allen says that we all need to be told more about what climate change is doing to our planet and called for weather forecasts to start showing what the weather would have been like without the effects of climate change.
