PULLMAN, Wash., July 20 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:
The warming climate fosters hotter temperatures, more intense storms, larger wildfires, and longer droughts, among other extremes. But how much does human-caused climate change influence a specific event such as a heat wave or storm?
Scientists in the field of extreme event attribution are increasingly able to answer that question, according to a new report from a 14-member committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine - including Washington State University's Deepti Singh.
The consensus report concludes that attribution science has advanced "considerably" since the last NASEMreport on the subject a decade ago, thanks to ...