"Can #attributionstudies be used to hold #polluters to account?

Yes. Such studies are increasingly being used as evidence of responsibility for #climatedamage in landmark #legalcases, such as Juliana v United States and Lluiya v RWE..."

How do we know that the #climatecrisis is to blame for #extremeweather? | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/how-do-we-know-that-the-climate-crisis-is-to-blame-for-extreme-weather

"Examinations of [some] extreme weather events that occurred in 2018 found that all but one were made more likely due to human-caused climate change, scientists reported December 9 at a news conference at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting."

#Climate #Weather #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #AttributionStudies

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fingerprints-climate-change-increasingly-appear-extreme-weather

"Hurricane Maria dropped more rain on Puerto Rico than any storm to hit the island since 1956, a feat due mostly to the effects of human-caused climate warming, new research finds."

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #AttributionStudies #Weather #Hurricanes #Storms

https://eos.org/scientific-press/climate-change-to-blame-for-hurricane-marias-extreme-rainfall?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=climate-change-to-blame-for-hurricane-marias-extreme-rainfall

Open access paper [ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL082077 ]

Eventually, these kinds of attribution studies will get the force of law, when lawsuits aimed at governments or corporations are sent out based on them.

#ClimateChange #AttributionStudies #Research

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/more-extreme-weather-events-caused-human-driven-climate-change