Is science making
progress on the attribution of any one extreme event to climate change?
Not exact matches
Despite the many unresolved issues touched
on in this chapter and discussed in more detail in chapters 5 — 9, the
progress that has been achieved over the past few years provides a basis for drawing some tentative conclusions concerning the nature of the observed differences between surface and upper air temperature trends, and their implications for the detection and
attribution of global climate change.break
For example, the National Academies recently published a study
on the
attribution of extreme events in the context of climate change, noting that «advances have come about for two main reasons: one, the understanding of the climate and weather mechanisms that produce extreme events is improving, and two, rapid
progress is being made in the methods that are used for event
attribution.