Climate Change Intensified Typhoon Shanshan, Study Says
- “Rare typhoon” Shanshan hit southern Japan with heavy rains
- Such events may occur more often in the area, scientists found
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Typhoon Shanshan, which struck southern Japan this week with heavy rain and strong winds, was likely intensified by climate change, according to a study from Imperial College London.
Researchers with the university teased out the contribution of global warming to the event using a method known as ‘attribution’ to model what the storm might have looked like on a planet without climate change, in which temperatures are 1.3C cooler. They found that the typhoon’s maximum wind speeds have become 7.5% more intense in a warmer world.