New research finds science for Ireland is now clear: human-driven climate change is discernible in Irish weather records
It seems that news about our changing climate is never out of the headlines; from Canadian wildfires to floods across Europe and in Ireland, our weather is changing and wreaking havoc across the planet. While scientists and international bodies, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have been warning about these events for decades, it's taken disasters to create action.
We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Working with students on the MSc Climate Change at Maynooth University, together with researchers at Maynooth and Met Éireann, we compiled temperature and rainfall records available in Ireland, some dating back to 1850. We then linked changes in local temperature and rainfall records to global temperature changes.
In the case of the rainfall data, fewer stations and indicators show the emergence of a clear climate change signal due to the large variability in rainfall data from year to year and season to season. However, many stations show substantial increases in winter rainfall per degree warming of GMST, indicating considerable increases in flood risk, even if future global temperature is restricted to 2oC as called for under the Paris Agreement.
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