2022’s supercharged summer of climate extremes: How global warming and La Niña fueled disasters on top of disasters

Photo caption: About a third of Pakistan flooded during the extreme monsoon in 2022, affecting an estimated 33 million people. Photo credit: AP Photo/Fareed Khan. Article by Kevin Trenberth. The Conversation – updated September 15, 2022.

There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a bucket of ice water and the right in a bucket of hot water, so that his overall temperature is average. That seemed to apply to the climate during 2022’s northern summer of extremes. Global warming is undoubtedly a factor, but just how the increasing extremes – heat waves, droughts and floods, sometimes one on top of the other – are related can be bewildering […]

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