Attribution of Weather Extremes to Human-caused Climate Change
Assessing Extreme-weather Disasters Caused by Humans
"Dr. Peter Stott of the UK Met Office and his colleagues published a paper in Nature showing that climate change had at least doubled the risk of the record-breaking 2003 European summer heat wave that is believed to have killed tens of thousands of people"
"World Weather Attribution (WWA) is a new international effort designed to sharpen and accelerate the scientific community’s ability to analyze and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme-weather events such as storms, floods, heat waves and droughts."
"The program — a partnership of Climate Central, the University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute (Oxford ECI), the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), the University of Melbourne, and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (the Climate Centre) — was initiated in late 2014 after discussions within the scientific community concluded that the emerging science of extreme-event attribution could be operationalized.
Climate Central coordinates the program and provides its secretariat."
Climate Central is "An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the public. Members of the Climate Central staff and board are among the most respected leaders in climate science. Staff members are authorities in communicating climate and weather links, sea level rise, climate." Source
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