What I'm looking for most is any suggestions about straightforward ways to describe the single weather
event attribution problem
Not exact matches
«This new way of viewing the
problem could be a game changer in the
attribution of extreme
events by providing a framework to quantify the portion of the damage that can be attributed to climate change — even for
events that themselves can not be directly attributed to climate change using traditional methods,» continues Hammerling.
Nicholson, noting that «up until now, climate change has been seen as a common
problem,» raised the concern of conflict over
attribution, in which countries that experience severe weather
events may blame countries deploying geoengineering technologies.
In turn, a number of workshops have tried to frame the
problem and lay the groundwork to improve our understanding of Arctic and mid-latitude linkages and accurate
attribution of extreme weather
events.
The
problem with
attribution for single
events is, of course, that all else is never equal.
I agree that especially with regards to extreme weather
events, I think the fractional
attribution problem is ill - posed
It's an *
attribution *
problem: the major effect is known, but it's unclear * why *, and specifically, whether or not a particular
event happened to trigger the effect, and how.
Such a dispute over a common story immediately highlights the most serious
problem with the Court's opinion: we all see what we want to see; behavioral biases like
attribution and availability lead to individualized view of
events.