Climate change responsible for UK’s waterlogged winters, scientists say
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Scientists have confirmed climate change as the primary reason behind the UK’s waterlogged winter. This year marked the country’s second wettest ‘October to March’ period.
According to the World Weather Attribution group, global warming made the level of rainfall in the UK at least four times more likely. It also said, “Successive floods have compounded impacts on the agriculture and housing sectors, leading to cascading impacts on socioeconomic and psychosocial health and eroding people’s coping capacity, particularly low-income groups.”
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The extreme weather was disastrous for farmers, who faced flooded fields during a critical planting period. A farmer in Lincolnshire told the BBC that a third of his farm could not be planted in time this year.
Storms are a natural part of UK winters, and the polar jet stream, a belt of mighty upper-level wind, essentially drives the low-pressure systems. The amount of rainfall on the stormiest days increased by about 20% on average.
Last decade was about 1.2 Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times. “Until the world reduces emissions to net zero, the climate will continue to warm, and rainfall in the UK and Ireland will continue to get heavier,” Sarah Kew, a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, told BBC.
Colin Chappell, another farmer from Lincolnshire, informed BBC, “There are some farms in the valley that will not see a harvest at all this year. That hasn’t happened here since 1948.”
He expressed his destitute and added, “If you’ve got nothing to bring in from your fields, what do you sell?”
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