#Nature Climate Change

New research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa reveals that the occurrence of long-lasting La Niña events, which impact many industries from agriculture to tourism, have become more frequent.

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Assistant Professor of oceanography Malte Stuecker is a contributing author to the alarming report just published by the International Panel on Climate Change. The report found climate change is happening and accelerating, the earth will continue to warm and these changes are unequivocally caused by human activities.

Multiple United States coastal regions may see rapid increases in the number of high-tide flooding days in the mid-2030s, according to a study led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and published in Nature Climate Change.

The paper concludes urgently: “Overall, our analysis shows that ongoing climate change will pose a heightened threat to humanity that will be greatly aggravated if substantial and timely reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are not achieved.”