Title:
Operational extreme weather event attribution can quantify climate change loss and damages
Authors:
Michael F. Wehner
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
&
Kevin A. Reed
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
Published:
PLOS Climate, 1 February 2022
Abstract:
“It is now well established that the influence of anthropogenic climate change on certain individual extreme weather events can be quantified by event attribution techniques. It is time that these activities move from the research community to the operational centers. Such routine evaluation of the human influence on extreme weather increases our scientific understanding and informs the public of climate change impacts. Furthermore, quantification of the human influence on extreme weather can be used to fairly evaluate climate change induced loss and damages”.