Peter Stott

Science

Published date June 24, 2016

How climate change affects extreme weather events

  • States that , although it has been said individual climate events cannot be attributed to anthropogenic climate change, a recent assessment by the National Academies of Science concludes that “this is no longer true as an unqualified blanket statement”
  • Argues that robust event attribution can support decisions such as how to rebuild after a disaster and how to price insurance by quantifying the current risk of such events

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