The fifth annual NOAA report of extreme weather events in 2014 aims to analyse whether human-induced activity was a significant cause of or contributor to the events. The report concluded that human-caused climate change increased the severity of a number of the major weather events (Californian wildfires, Argentine heatwave and East African drought, amongst others), but that it was not the root cause of all of them (cold winters in the US Mid-West, extreme rainfall in the UK, record year in Antarctica ice flows).
The fifth annual NOAA report of extreme weather events in 2014 aims to analyse whether human-induced activity was a significant cause of or contributor to the events. The report concluded that human-caused climate change increased the severity of a number of the major weather events (Californian wildfires, Argentine heatwave and East African drought, amongst others), but that it was not the root cause of all of them (cold winters in the US Mid-West, extreme rainfall in the UK, record year in Antarctic sea ice flows).