Not exact matches
It is absolutely true that climate scientists are extremely cautious about attributing any
event to anthropogenic climate change, but an increasing number of such
attributions are being made with high confidence in the
scientific literature now.
EUCLEIA, a european project that ended this year, did not only explore many of the challenges and limitations of extreme
event attribution but in particular fostered and strengthened a
scientific community that will live on in other projects for the coming years.
the
attribution of a specific heavy precipitation
event to human - caused GHG's is not an extra development in science that is needed to add to the burden of proof regarding the human influence on climate already provided by the current
scientific evidence.»
In recent years, more and more «
event attribution analyses» have appeared in the
scientific literature (see 2014 BAMS Special Report).
There have also been
scientific advances in in the detection and
attribution of human activities in extreme climate and weather
events.
Now,
scientific advancements in extreme weather
event attribution are turning this assumption on its head.
For
event attribution assessments to be most useful, remaining
scientific uncertainties need to be robustly assessed and the results clearly communicated.
Although the demand for
attribution assessments is higher shortly after an
event occurs, most
scientific studies become available several months later.
The growing research area of extreme
event attribution has provided pertinent
scientific evidence for a number of such warm
events for which the forced climate response rises above internal climatic variability.