Human-caused climate change linked to catastrophic East Africa drought.
The worst drought in East Africa in at least 40 years, which has displaced over a million people and pushed millions more to the brink of famine, would not have happened if not for human-caused climate change, according to a network of extreme weather scientists. Rising global temperatures, largely from burning fossil fuels, have disrupted the weather patterns that typically bring rainfall to Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. With global temperatures about 1.2 degrees Celsius higher than the preindustrial average, droughts like this one are 100 times more likely than they would have been in a cooler world.