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2024-11-19 07:59 UTC

"#Attribution scientists are no longer only analysing the #ExtremeWeather events themselves but also making the human cost tangible by estimating how much of the damage caused would have been avoided if fossil fuel burning had not heated the world." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal

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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2024-11-19 08:04

#ClimateAttribution map "Across all these cases, 74% were made more likely or severe because of #ClimateChange. This includes multiple cases where scientists found that an extreme was virtually impossible without human influence on global temperatures." Another recent advance is “impact #attribution”, which quantifies the social, economic and/or ecological impacts arising from the influence of climate change on extreme weather." https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-studies/index.html

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