Climateprediction: Assigning historical responsibility for extreme events

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Historical responsibility of individual countries and regions can now be quantified for specific extreme events A new paper by Dr Friederike Otto, Professor Myles Allen et al[1] describes how scientific advances make it possible to assign extreme events to human-induced climate change and historical emissions from individual countries. These developments could allow losses and damage […]

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