Droughts Are Far More Common
The climate crisis is making droughts more frequent and more severe. There are a number of factors that led to this, including decreases in precipitation, earlier snow melt, and increased evaporation due to hotter temperatures, according to the new report, which was compiled by over 200 leading climate scientists from around the world.
The kind of extreme droughts that used to occur once per decade on average are now occurring 70% more frequently. If we allow the planet to reach 2 degrees Celsius of warming, these droughts will occur between two and three times as often as they did before we began emitting greenhouse gases.
