The Amazon River Basin is facing severe to exceptional drought, with human-caused global warming found to play a significant role in intensifying these conditions. World Weather Attribution's analysis concluded that climate change has made droughts more common in South America, leading to the most extreme drought ever recorded in the Amazon basin. Additionally, climate change is making precipitation events warmer, wetter, and more intense, exacerbating their destructiveness.
With news that a La Nina Watch has been issued for the Pacific, let's check the Atlantic to see how this year's sea surface temps compare to last years at this time. Welp, that's not good. https://t.co/MCuxNjWRYd
#natgas - first forecast in a month that isn't very warm. And it's affirmatively cold. https://t.co/R9sGfKbK6e
Not surprising as it's a common effect of El Niño, but one of the biggest changes I see comparing SST anomalies year-over-year is how much heat is focused in the global tropics, compared to last year in the subtropics/mid-latitudes. https://t.co/lyB7TBoFqy
Too much rain isn’t good. “Even as dry periods are becoming longer and more severe, climate change is making precipitation events warmer, wetter and more intense — enhancing their destructiveness” https://t.co/TRZZsmIVqF
“Climate change has made droughts more common… that happened in South America this year. “We’ve had the most extreme drought ever recorded in the Amazon basin, and if you have droughts in the Amazon, you also get less rain in the south of South America.” https://t.co/phZqfpetRo
This is an important finding, showing that big events can now be driven by climate change, not just made worse by it: “World Weather Attribution has concluded that human-caused global warming played a significantly larger role than El Niño in intensifying the 2023 Amazon drought” https://t.co/HvirJoJCpS
The Amazon River Basin has been experiencing severe to exceptional #drought. While drought is more common during El Niño years, a new preliminary analysis concluded that human-caused global warming played a much larger role intensifying these conditions. https://t.co/7Ta1Sx0rvi https://t.co/fRco9DKQWd