Climate change gives rise to more unstable weather, local droughts and extreme temperature records, but a coherent theory relating local and global climate is still under active development. Now a Danish astrophysics student at the Niels Bohr Institute used a mathematical approach — inspired by research in the Universe’s light — to unveil how global temperature increase engenders locally unstable weather on Earth.
With over 99 percent agreement among climate scientists, it is now clear that Earth is warming globally and that this warming is predominantly human-made.
Temperature increases faster than ever before, and Earth is probably at its warmest for over 100,000 years. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution about 250 years ago, the world has become 1.1 °C warmer.
Global and local warming
Climate change in recent years has given us extreme heat records, such as last year, when Canadians measured their highest temperature at almost 50 °C; five degrees
— source University of Copenhagen – Faculty of Science | May 25, 2022