Extreme weather events in a changing climate | DW News

Human-made climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of severe weather. 2022 continued the trend of recent years being the warmest on record. Extreme heat and water events affected many parts of the globe, with the greatest increases in temperature not where you might expect.

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[josegegas]

The worse thing is that those who pay the consequences are the poor, while those guilty of most of the CO2 are the rich, who barely suffer any consequence of climate change.

[crisholmurb]

I am not sure I understand what you base the claims in this video on? - According to IPCC there is none to little evidence from extreme weathers being correlated to climate change, or even worse caused by climate change. Just read chapter 11 in the latest full IPCC Assessment Report and you will see for yourselves. The only extreme weather where the authors of the IPCC report find satisfactory evidence is for the correlation of increasing mean temperatures and heat waves. The evidence presented for the other types of extreme weathers are contradictory, i.e. weak or no correlations and certainly no causality.

For every extreme heat record you presented in this episode there are several cold records. There has been snow in Karpathian mountains in the middle of the summer for several years in a row (2019, 2020, 2021), in January 2020 there was snow and -2 Celsius in Amman in Saudi Arabia - first time in 150 years, we have seen very early snowfall in Canada (September 2020 and May 2021) and there has been snow falling during summer in Australia in 2021.

Finally a small anecdote: In 1989 James Hansen claimed the NYC West Side Highway could be underwater in 2009. There are still cars driving there.

So, there is no doubt climate is changing - but to make claims about correlation and/or causality between extreme weather and climate change is simply not supported by data.

[ANTheWhizkid]

Things like these should be a warning sign to all politicians worldwide, to not follow the tracks of their predecessors when it´s about doing something right now, or ultimately putting the final nail into the coffin by further contributing to the problem. The failures of the past do not allow for a slow change, procrastination or handing the problem over to the next generation again.
Who will be courageous enough to make the drastic decisions that we, everyone and especially future generations need and how much closer to 12 does it need to get until it happens?

[Sahil-uvgo]

In my part of the world, we used to have winter and it used to be around 10-15°C . Now we barely feel anything. Its around 25°C. Climate change is real and it's terrifying.

[monp.]

OMG we're all going to die!!! Tax us, please, tax us with carbon tax, so we don't die and our (inconpetent) governments can fix this!

Heat waves in summer, blizzards in imagine my shock!

[missbanoo]

The worst has to come yet, I believe. The earth will not let us go so easily, it is responding.

[walterwhite]

By this rate I would live thousands of years of climate events in my lifetime. I don't feel surprised by any news these days. Flood in Sahara desert no surprise, Monsoon in USA no surprise, hurricanes in south Asia no surprises, lettuce outlasting PM no surprise. Coup in Germany no surprises I think we lost surprised feeling.

[monuomveersingh]

Plant more trees, use public transport, eat vegetarian food, save water, save forests, save animal. These are some tips to reverse the climate change.

[monp.]

Funny, and Germany is going back to coal cuz they dont have enough "green energy" for everyone to heat their homes. 😄🤣😂🤣😂

[cleasberg]

its no climate change its normal variation

[DecMurphy]

Yeah maybe we should stop using fossil fuels, has anyone ever suggested that?

[scottpulver]

Wexhave had many blizzards before. People are so used to things going easily now they don't know how to handle anything.

[OldScientist]

This is bad weather. This is bad governance and poverty. If the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, shouldn't the temperature gradient between it and the tropics be reduced, thus reducing extreme weather?

[dvsxavier]

1984 has arrived. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell

[-.l.-]

The threat of global warming and climate change affects us all. It is therefore essential to address this issue at the individual level.

[martins]

Lmao the meteorologist served the old fool. He expected different opinion KEKW.

[roberthicks]

none of these events are unprecedented. Every thing that has happened in the last 20 years has happened FREQUENTLY in the past. The only difference is the definition, which change ever few years to make it look like they are getting worse.

[nitolino]

and what are we doing..just observing these events…that is all..

[niltomega]

Its funny to see people become angry" at "Climate change deniers".
How are "deniers" hurting anything?

[tonyrandall]

Fairly catastrophic floods in Australia too. Record breaking heatwaves probably incoming too.