Drought episodes linked to climate change are exacerbated by human activity

This photo shows a partially dried lake near Tourves, southeastern France, on Feb 21. Photo: Nicolas Tucat/AFP

New research concludes that the intense droughts that occurred in Western Europe during the summer of 2022 were indeed caused in large part by global warming, which is, in turn, directly related to human activity.

It is a scientific consensus now well established that the climate crisis is directly linked to human activity. And this is as much the case for emissions of CO2 or methane as for the destruction of biodiversity.