(Bloomberg) -- Climate change can make heat waves more likely and more severe, according to a study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that found fewer clear links to extreme weather such as drought and storms.
Twenty independent teams looked at 16 events around the world in 2013, including in the U.S., Australia and Europe. They found there is evidence that the burning of fossil fuels has increased the risk for extreme heat waves.
“How human influence affected other types of events such as droughts, heavy rain events and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger role in these extremes,” they wrote.
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