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Scientists have found the cause of weather anomalies
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
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A group of climate meteorologists have identified the cause of last year's weather anomalies, in particular, the floods in the United States and the sweltering heat in central Europe and Russia. Details of the scientific work can be found in the Science News section of the periodical Birzhevoy Lider, or in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
According to experts, the unprecedentedly powerful floods that were observed last year in Florida and other American states, as well as the unusually warm winter in Brazil and Great Britain, are the result of total climate change on Earth.
Stephanie Erring, a leading employee of the US Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, noted that observations of anomalous phenomena in nature were conducted for five years. As a result, a huge amount of confirmed information was accumulated, which served as proof that periodic increases in heat and other natural disasters are directly related to general climate changes.
The rise in the level of the world's water bodies has led to an increase in the number of floods and deluges on the planet. Over the past twenty years, the frequency of mass floods has increased 500 times - and this is certainly related to global warming processes. Along with this, the cardinal climate imbalance increases the risk of fires by about 50%.
Specialist Stefania Erring added that the widespread recording of extreme heat, massive floods and other anomalies that have occurred over the past two decades poses another challenge for scientists: to discover the connection between these phenomena and changes in the course of sea currents and wind flows.
To assess the possibility of such a connection, Erring and a large group of other climate meteorologists analyzed more than two dozen similar events that took place last year. Having summarized the information received, the scientists began to look for a common provoking factor that could serve as a trigger for these cataclysms.
The conducted research allowed to make an important conclusion: all the considered two dozen phenomena had a clear connection with climate change on Earth. Moreover, the connection was also found in such events as the climate phenomenon El Niño - this is a flood in Florida and a period of drought in California.
The effect of global climate change was particularly evident in Eurasia, in the central region of Europe, and in the Balkans. In the United States, in addition to floods, abnormal amounts of precipitation were observed, particularly in the spring and autumn period. At the same time, an increase in average annual temperatures and a change in the course and movement of the wind were observed.
Often, in order to prove that human activity is not involved in climate change on the planet, they try to link the current period of global warming on Earth with changes in solar activity. Is this really so? Perhaps further research by scientists will shed light on this issue.
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