Climate change made these 17 extreme weather events radically worse

Mashable

Just as scientists confidently predicted last century, climate change is pushing weather to extremes all over the planet. A new report, published Monday by the American Meteorological Society, again proves the point. The 100-page report assessed 17 extreme weather events from 2017. It includes floods, droughts, and heat waves — and determined global warming either significantly boosted the odds of these events. Or simply made such extreme, often deadly events possible in the first place. And when it comes to heat waves, rain, and drought, scientists have a good handle on how climate change exacerbates these events, often by modeling the chances of extreme weather events in the absence of today's globally disrupted climate.