Scientists explain when individual weather events can be blamed on climate change

Bowerbird · Mar 10, 2022

Up until about a decade ago, the go-to answer from climate scientists was: "You can not blame an individual extreme weather event on climate change".

But in recent years, this stance has softened.

This is thanks to a developing field of science known as 'extreme event attribution', which is all about determining how much of a role human influence played on an extreme weather event.

University of NSW climate scientist Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick works in this field.

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Key points:

Directly linking extreme weather events to climate change can be challenging

Heatwaves can be more confidently linked to changing weather patterns

A developing field of science aims to determine the role of human influence

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-11/blaming-extreme-weather-on-climate-change/100876646

So, now a developing field will be able to say statistically if an extreme weather event has been caused by climate change

That is good news

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