21. Jan, 2011
The effect of warming in Europe is substantial. The increase in mean temperature has increased the rate of record occurrence by about 40% from 1976 to 2005. For the European station data covering the time period 1976-2005, we find that about 5 of the 17 high temperature records observed on average in 2005 can be attributed to the warming climate.
The source article Record-breaking temperatures reveal a warming climate was published 2010 by Europhysics Letters .
Tags: climate change impact, EU, Europe, temperature
Many events are linked to climate change by virtue of fitting a long-term trend. For example, the record-breaking “once in one thousand years” rains that drove the recent Nashville flood is part of the long-term trend of increasing heavy precipitation events in the Southeastern United States that has been fully documented and firmly attributed to climate change. While one cannot say with certainly that event was "caused" by climate change, one can and should say it is linked to climate change.
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