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Miami:
Not all extreme weather events were included in the research, so the report does not offer a comprehensive picture of the world's extreme weather last year.
Weather events involving heat were most likely to have a clear signal that climate change played a factor, with such influence detectable about 95 per cent of the time, researchers said.
Those involving precipitation were less certain, with human-driven climate change or other land use activities showing up about 40 per cent of the time.
"Climate change is happening. It is having impacts," said Herring, noting that scientists were not offered funding or incentives by NOAA for their research.
"Is it having impact uniformly across the globe in everything that we see and do? At this point, not in a measurable way."
For the purposes of the study, human influence, could include the burning of fossil fuels which drives global warming, or the development of land and changes to water use that can make droughts, floods and wildfires more devastating.
Weather events involving heat were most likely to have a clear signal that climate change played a factor, with such influence detectable about 95 per cent of the time, researchers said.
Those involving precipitation were less certain, with human-driven climate change or other land use activities showing up about 40 per cent of the time.
"Climate change is happening. It is having impacts," said Herring, noting that scientists were not offered funding or incentives by NOAA for their research.
"Is it having impact uniformly across the globe in everything that we see and do? At this point, not in a measurable way."
For the purposes of the study, human influence, could include the burning of fossil fuels which drives global warming, or the development of land and changes to water use that can make droughts, floods and wildfires more devastating.
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