Recent hurricanes harvey, irma and maria killed over 200 people in the u. S. And the caribbean, and they caused nearly 1 trillion worth of damage. Donald trump, an outspoken Climate Change skeptic, visited the disaster area, and he continues to rule out that human activity could have caused the catastrophe. But now theres a field of science which, for the first time, is able to estimate whether a Natural Disaster was a young german physicist at Britains Oxford University is studying hurricane harvey. Similar studies on the floods in louisiana last year produced clear results. Friederike during those studies we discovered that Climate Change had, on average, doubled the probability of this torrential rain occurring. So it would be surprising if we got a totally different result in a neighboring state at the same time of year just 12 months later. Reporter so far the discussion about Natural Disasters and their possible link to Climate Change has been largely a political one. Its a highs
Recent hurricanes harvey, irma and maria killed over 200 people in the u. S. And the caribbean, and they caused nearly 1 trillion worth of damage. Donald trump, an outspoken Climate Change skeptic, visited the disaster area, and he continues to rule out that human activity could have caused the catastrophe. But now theres a field of science which, for the first time, is able to estimate whether a Natural Disaster was likely due to humancaused Climate Change or not. A young german physicist at Britains Oxford University is studying hurricane harvey. Similar studies on the floods in louisiana last year produced clear results. Friederike during those studies we discovered that Climate Change had, on average, doubled the probability of this torrential rain occurring. So it would be surprising if we got a totally different result in a neighboring state at the same time of year just 12 months later. Reporter so far the discussion about Natural Disasters and their possible link to Climate Cha