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Not Australia, but a recent study[0] confirmed the Pakistan flooding (in which 10% of this country that's larger than Texas is underwater) links to climate change. Historically, tying events like this to climate change in a way that lives up to scientific rigor has been quite difficult, but techniques and available data have been improving. Allowing us to tie many extreme weather events to climate change, including: the seemingly never-ending droughts in the Horn of Africa, Mexico, and China, flash floods in West and Central Africa, Iran and the inland United States and searing heat waves in India, Japan, California, Britain and Europe. They refrained for making estimates for the Pakistan flooding, but earlier this year scientists found that the heat that scorched India and Pakistan this spring had been 30 times as likely to occur because of greenhouse emissions. July’s extreme heat in Britain had been at least 10 times as likely

If you're looking for a mechanism of action for how climate change can make monsoons more deadly, it's likely to do with increased evaporation of water due to increased temperatures and the fact that hotter air holds more moisture

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/climate/pakistan-floods-g...



Increased instrumentation/data could also lead to bias in the data through increased volume. I’m sure there’s a name for this effect.


Measurement bias?


the bias could be in either direction




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