MEDIA reporting on the position of local weather change in excessive climate occasions was once framed someplace alongside the traces of: “Though that is the type of phenomenon that international warming makes extra frequent, we are able to’t attribute particular person climate occasions to local weather change.” This was right within the twentieth century, however it’s positively flawed at present.
The first research to attribute a person excessive occasion, the 2003 European summer season heatwave, to local weather change was revealed in 2004. Many adopted. Greater than 50 are from World Climate Attribution, an initiative of local weather scientists I co-founded in 2015 that research occasions …