April storms that killed 24 in the United States made fossil fuels – study | US weather

The four-day historical storm, which caused death and destruction in the central Mississippi valley in early April, became more significant and serious due to burning fossil fuels. A quick analysis by a coalition of leading climate scientists.

The rain's records were unloaded between 3rd and 6th April in eight southern and middle west, which led to widespread catastrophic floods, in which at least 15 people, flooded harvesting, destroyed houses, vehicles thrown away and caused power outages for hundreds of thousands of households.

The floods were caused by rainfall, which made more likely to be made by around 9% more intensive and 40% by the climate change caused by humans, as the study of global weather attribution (WWA) noted. The uncertainty in models means that the role of the climate crisis was probably even higher.

Another nine people died of the consequences of tornados and strong winds, and the economic damage was estimated at $ 80 billion and USD 90 billion.

The record rash was mostly driven by warm ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, which fed the storm moisture that they fell in Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. All in all, the man-made climate crisis made the surface level temperatures 2.2 ° C (1.2 ° C) hotter, and such ocean conditions are now 14 times more often in a cooler, pre-industrial world, as the study has determined.

The region has been beaten by several fatal storms in recent years, including hurricane Helene in September, in which more than 230 people were mainly killed from strong rainfall and floods.

However, the number of fatalities in the last month could have been much worse, however, how did it not have been predicted around the clock and would have been early warnings by the National Weather Service (NWS), which, thanks to Donald Trump and his billionaire donor Elon Musk, was exposed to larger cuts and employees.

In total, the NWS gave 728 different serious thunderstorms and tornado warnings from the third highest number that helped the local authorities to issue timely evacuation orders and to position emergency resources that saved life.

“These floods did not make the title pages, but they should. At least 15 people died, houses were ruined and arable land was transformed into swamps,” said Friederike Otto, Senior lecturer for climate science at the Grantham Institute of Imperial College London – climate change and the environment. “In an increasingly dangerous world of extreme weather, a well -equipped forecast workforce is essential.

A combination of weather patterns, including the collision of two air masses, created a storm that lingered the region days apocalyptic weather, including hundreds of tornados, hailstorms, landslides and wind events. Based on historical data, similar rain in today's climate is expected to occur on average about once in the century with 2.3 ° C heating over pre-industrial level.

But things are on the right track to make themselves much worse. If the transition from oil, gas and coal continues to renewable energy sources in today's snail speed, the four -day precipitation spell will be twice as likely and around 2100 more intense, as the study stated.

The NWS is one of the most important federal authorities that are attacked by the Trump management, research extreme weather events, prepare for extreme weather events and react to them that were already overwhelmed due to the climate crisis.

Almost half of the NWS offices have 20% vacancy rates as high as 10 years ago. In the midst of mass removal and recordings, there are no boss meteorologist in 30 of the 122 NWS offices in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, where the storm struck according to CNN, including several in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee.

Trump's climatic cuts are on guidelines to increase the fossil fuels and the blocking of renewable energies, since the United States gather for another year of destructive forest fires, extreme temperatures and Atlantic towers.

“We have to deal with floods, droughts, forest fires and heat waves – to many times at once – and the science repeatedly confirms that they become more dangerous when the planet is upswing,” said Shel Winkley, Weather and Climate Engagement Specialist at Climate Central. “To understand exactly where and when these unnatural extreme events will occur, is of crucial importance for the protection of public security.”

This is the 101st WWA study, a decades of initiative, which provides a quick scientific analysis about whether and to what extent the global heating induced by humans have changed fossil fuels and the deforestation of the likelihood and intensity of a local extreme weather event. The latest study was carried out by 15 researchers as part of the world weather attribution group, including scientists from universities and meteorological agencies in the USA, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands.