The extra amount of energy from solar radiation trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels affects numerous most relevant processes in atmosphere and weather patterns – from heat and droughts to rain and floods. Weather extremes are increasing. Our climate changes, a climate which has been remarkably stable during millennia of human civilization. Earth system science disentangling the mechanisms at work is the very foundation for assessing the risks.
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Precise PIK forecasts of the beginning of the monsoon help farmers in India
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Rainy days harm the economy
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Too dry, too hot, or too wet: Increasing Weather Persistence in European Summer
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High impact climate events: Better adaptation through earlier prediction
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The Ripple Factor: Economic losses from weather extremes can amplify each other across the world
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Hotter, wetter, drier: the science behind extreme weather events
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Unprecedented rise of heat and rainfall extremes in observational data
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Reducing tropical cyclone impacts: The double benefit of climate protection through both limiting and delaying global warming
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Today’s children to experience two to seven times more extremes than their grandparents
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