Human-induced global warming caused severe drought in the Amazon.
The world’s largest rainforest has experienced unprecedented drought. As the Earth endured the hottest year on record, the world continues to increase in temperature, edging closer to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) increase since pre-industrial times. Nations should hope to maintain temperatures in order to avoid the detrimental consequences of global warming.
It is noted by the World Weather Attribution that both climate change and El Niño resulted in less rainfall in the Amazon, however it was higher temperatures that were responsible for the drought.
“What is now about a one-in-50-year event would have been much less likely to occur in a 1.2-degree cooler world. If we continue to warm the climate, this combination of low rainfall and high temperatures will become even more frequent” stated Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Imperial College of London.
A scientifically accepted methodology using computer simulations of weather events was used to show how the weather events would have occurred without global warming, and this was compared to how the events actually took place.
Along the Amazon River, locals saw crops and fish disappear, and had to be subjected to relief supplies. In Manaus, which remains the Amazon’s largest city (with over 2 million residents), wildfires enveloped the region for months.
Luiz Candido, a Brazilian meteorologist (National Institute for Amazon Research) stated that the outcomes support scientific conclusions that climate change has exacerbated the extreme conditions being experiences in the Amazon.
✅The changes in climate change continue to affect the world in unprecedented ways.
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