Study: Climate Change Makes Extreme Floods & Storms More Likely

One cannot look at a single storm, flood, or drought and say conclusively, "climate change caused that." But what researchers are attempting to do lately is climate change risk assessment—figuring out how much more likely severe events may become as our world continues to warm up. Two new studies in Nature today try to do just that with heavy rains and flooding, saying definitively that warm temperatures make these events more likely.