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You can read the IPCC executive summary: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/ https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/summary

by tootie 3y ago

You can read the IPCC executive summary: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/ https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/summary-for-polic... It calls it "likely" that climate change is inducing more cyclones and heavy precipitation but also "virtually certain" that it is causing a increase in frequency and intensity of heat waves. The specific editorial verbiage in The Verge is a bit reductive, but I'd say it's entirely fair.

slibhb 3y ago
Not quite. The report says it's "virtually certain" that heat waves have increased but only "highly likely" that this increase is caused by climate change. That aside, I don't believe we have the data or the statistical methods to make the claim that the article does. I would say that the link between climate change and weather events is "frightening plausible" and leave it at that.