Scientists Eye 'Real-Time' Extreme Event Attribution

By Megan Rowling
Thomson Reuters Foundation

BARCELONA — Climate scientists hope to be able to tell the world almost in real-time whether global warming has a hand in extreme weather thanks to an initiative they plan to launch by the end of 2015.

In recent years, scientists have become more adept at working out whether climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions is exacerbating wild weather and its impacts around the world, but the task usually takes months.

“In the media, we are seeing this notion that you cannot attribute any individual events to climate change, but in fact the science has really evolved over the past decade,” said Heidi Cullen, chief scientist with Climate Central.

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