Was that climate change? Scientists are getting faster at linking extreme weather to warming

Author:
Graham Readfearn

Is it still true to say you can’t point to any single extreme weather event and claim you can’t link it to human-caused climate change?

Plenty of people seem to think this is still the case. But a rapidly evolving field of climate science suggests that it’s not.

Take Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, for example, who was touring Tasmania after the devastating flooding there in June.

Turnbull pointed out that “larger and more frequent storms” were predicted by climate scientists, but then followed up with....

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