652696 external_news 1636574867 1636574867 A first-of-its-kind study uses a new high-resolution climate model to highlight local climate-fueled extreme weather risks decades in advance -- and the results aren't good. Researchers found through the high-resolution model that impacts of extreme rainfall could be more frequent and severe due to climate change than had previously been thought. The study comes as global leaders convene in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26 to discuss strategies for curbing greenhouse gas emissions in hopes of slowing human-induced warming, which is increasing at an alarming rate. Kim Cobb, Georgia Power Chair and ADVANCE Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, says if emissions reductions are enacted this decade, warming can be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which would mitigate climate-fueled extreme weather impacts by the turn of the century, but action is needed immediately. 

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