Assigning historical responsibility for extreme events
Posted on 6th November 2017
Historical responsibility of individual countries and regions can now be quantified for specific extreme events A new paper by Dr Friederike Otto, Professor Myles Allen et al[1] describes how scientific advances make it possible to assign extreme events to human-induced climate change and historical emissions from individual countries. These developments could allow losses and damage […]
Does rapid attribution stand test of time?
Posted on 3rd November 2017
Study revisits assessment of storm “Desmond” with more data to determine whether rapid attribution stands the test of time. A recent revisit of an attribution assessment of an extreme weather event carried out in late 2015 has found results similar to the ‘real-time’ analysis just after the event. During the days immediately after an extreme weather […]
Dr Fredi Otto to take part in ‘Climate Science and the Law’ seminar
Posted on 3rd November 2017
Hosted by environmental law firm ClientEarth and the Oxford Martin School. Drawing on a recent paper in Nature Geoscience, the event on 7 December at SCI London brings together leading scientists in probabilistic event attribution, lawyers and academics to discuss the intersection of event attribution science and the law. Dr Otto and other experts, hosted by environmental […]