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International group of climate scientists that runs rapid studies of how human-caused warming affects individual extreme weather events and disasters.
World Weather Attribution and Climate Central estimate climate change added about 6 mph to Hurricane Polo's winds, against about 5 mph from El Niño. The comparison covers warm water only and is not yet peer reviewed.
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Satellite images of the August 26 collapse show a fresh, uniform scar high on Langtang Lirung's north face. The volume researchers estimate from it, about 110 million cubic metres, averages roughly 50 metres of rock and ice.
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The World Weather Attribution analysis of the August 26 collapse that killed more than 1,300 people finds thinning glaciers and thawing permafrost weakened the slope over decades, without saying warming caused the failure.
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World Weather Attribution scientists found human influence has made annual temperatures about 1.9C warmer near the site of Nepal's 26 August avalanche. A Canterbury researcher on the team says the Southern Alps share many of the same conditions, though he expects any such event there to be much smaller.
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Concordia researchers found more than 30% of almost 2,000 stories on Canada's 2023 wildfires in six outlets explicitly tied the fires to climate change. The data cover one record season, so whether newsrooms kept drawing the link afterwards is still untested.
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