Study: Climate change behind some 2015 floods, fires, heat waves


A child enjoys a cool fountain in London, Britain, 13 September 2016. Britain is experiencing unusually hot September weather with temperature in south-east England reaching over 32 degrees Celsius. -EPA

MIAMI: Last year’s heat waves across Europe and Asia, fires in Alaska, unusually sunny winters in Britain and high-tide floods in Florida were influenced by climate change, a US report showed Thursday.

But other extreme weather events could not be blamed on the burning of fossil fuels which traps gas in the atmosphere and warms the planet, said the report called “Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective.”

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