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English: The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (2021) projects that ten year extreme weather events will become more common compared to the pre-industrial era.
  • Based on data from Fig. SPM.6 of:
Climate Change 2021 / The Physical Science Basis / Working Group I contribution to the WGI Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / Summary for Policymakers . IPCC.ch SPM-23. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( 9 August 2021 ). Archived from the original on 4 November 2021 .
  • Source states:
  • Hot temperature extremes over land - 10-year event - Frequency and increase in intensity of extreme temperature event that occurred once in 10 years on average in a climate without human influence
  • Heavy precipitation over land - 10-year event - Frequency and increase in intensity of heavy 1-day precipitation event that occurred once in 10 years on average in a climate without human influence
  • Agricultural & ecological droughts in drying regions - 10-year event - Frequency and increase in intensity of an agricultural and ecological drought event that occurred once in 10 years on average across drying regions in a climate without human influence
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ten-year extreme weather events are becoming more likely under climate change.

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