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Dubai flooded: “These extreme climatic episodes” will multiply because of climate change, warns François Gemenne, co-author of the IPCC
Dubai flooded: “These extreme climatic episodes” will multiply because of climate change, warns François Gemenne, co-author of the IPCC
(franceinfo)
If the attribution of torrential rains in the United Arab Emirates to global warming is not yet proven, the co-author of the IPCC and president of the “Foundation for Nature and Man”, François Gemenne, assures on franceinfo, Wednesday April 17, that these episodes will soon no longer be rare.
After violent storms, Dubai, the emblematic modern city of the United Arab Emirates, finds itself submerged by water. Same thing for Qatar, Oman, or even Bahrain. Wednesday April 17, impressive images of the flooded emirates went around the world.
Should we see these torrential rains as the consequence of global warming? To see more clearly, François Gemenne, Belgian political scientist, co-author of the IPCC and president of the “Foundation for Nature and Man”, delivers his analysis on franceinfo. The origin of these bad weather could be known “in a few days”thanks to “a branch of climate science, called attribution science”first specifies the political scientist.
An almost certain origin
But “it is certain that one of the effects of climate change will be the increase, both in the frequency but also in the intensity, of these extreme climatic episodes”, underlines François Gemenne. For him, it is therefore “certain” that “heavy precipitation in the Gulf (…) is an effect of climate change”. And to mention however “another possibility”that of a “geoengineering process gone wrong”.
