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Using more than 8000 weather stations around the world and data going back to 1900, researchers have found a link between global warming and an increase in extreme rainfall. Lead author Dr Seth Westra said rainfall extremes were increasing over More…
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This highlights the need for more proactive adaptation. Although mitigation may help prevent dragging us more towards disastrous climate change, taking action to mitigate consequences of changes already occurring is a must. The other important message here is that in studying climate impacts important insights come from analyses using the variability in data sets not just the mean.
The key public policy issue is whether approaches to adapt to climate change are any different to general risk management?