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Record December warmth is affecting large areas of the northern hemisphere, including most of Europe and the eastern US, while severe flooding hits places from Paraguay to the north of England. Although scientists resist making a direct causal link between global warming and individual weather events, they say climate change tends to increase the intensity and severity of rainstorms, because a warmer atmosphere contains more moisture and energy. There is 4 per cent more moisture in the air over the world’s oceans today than there was in the 1970s, according to Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at the UK Met Office. December’s warmth in relation to long-term averages has been remarkable in the UK. In England the mean temperature of 9.5C is not only 5.1C above average but an amazing 2C above the previous record set in 1934 — usually monthly temperature records are beaten by a small fraction of a degree. |
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Climate Change strongly linked to UK Floods