Dramatic climate action needed to curtail ‘crazy’ extreme weather

(The Guardian, 28 Aug 2023) Heatwaves, wildfires and floods are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, leading climate scientists say.

The “crazy” extreme weather rampaging around the globe in 2023 will become the norm within a decade without dramatic climate action, the world’s leading climate scientists have said.

The heatwaves, wildfires and floods experienced today were just the “tip of the iceberg” compared with even worse effects to come, they said, with limitations in climate models leaving the world “flying partially blind” into the future.

With fears that humanity’s relentless carbon emissions have finally pushed the climate crisis into a new and accelerating phase of destruction, the Guardian sought the expert assessments of more than 40 scientists from around the world.

They said that the rise in global temperature was entirely in line with decades of warnings and was being boosted this year by the return of the El Niño climate pattern. But they said that people and places were more vulnerable to extreme weather than expected and were suffering effects never previously experienced as climate records were shattered.

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The Guardian, 28 Aug 2023: Dramatic climate action needed to curtail ‘crazy’ extreme weather