Attribution
Weather is a short term occurrence; climate change is a long term pattern. That’s why scientists have been hesitant to claim that climate change has caused any particular weather-related event, whether it be hurricanes, droughts, floods or wildfires. Climate change makes these events more likely, but we can’t say for sure that they are linked to global warming. That narrative is finally changing, thanks to the World Weather Attribution project led by Friederike Otto and Geert Jan van Oldenborgh. Their deep statistical analysis is able to rapidly conclude that certain weather events are “virtually impossible without human-caused climate change”.
— Wayne Visser
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