LONDON—The cause of much of the recent extreme
weather across the world is climate change triggered by human activities,
scientists say.
The Earth has experienced a range of severe
regional weather extremes in recent years, including the heat waves of 2011 in
the US and 2010 in Russia, a year that also brought the unprecedented Pakistan
floods.
Behind these distinct events, though, there is a
common physical cause, according to a team at the Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany.
