Why It’s So Hard to Link Extreme Weather Events to Climate Change

Attribution science examines how global warming fuels extreme weather, but making the connection is challenging

By Eric Niiler and Matthew Dalton of The WSJ. Excerpts:

"the science gets murky when they try to determine whether any one storm—or heat wave or drought—was fueled by global warming."

"scientists at ClimaMeter . . . concluded . . . hat global warming likely intensified the rainfall by as much as 7%." [but how much impact did that 7% have in terms of how high and fast the waters rose and how much loss of life and damage it caused-the article did not say]

"the group acknowledged major limitations to its study. Remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Barry stalled over the region and repeatedly fed rainfall, making it hard to compare the weather pattern to historical data." 

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