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National Academies Seeks To Bolster Climate Change ‘Attribution’ Efforts

October 30, 2024
The National Academies Of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) is launching a new committee to advance efforts to link extreme weather events to climate change, a move that could bolster underlying support to address the challenge amid significant partisan splits on climate and clean energy policy. The effort concerns “extreme event attribution,” which seeks to quantify the impact of human-caused climate change on a specific extreme weather event. Some scientists are already conducting such attribution studies now, and environmentalists are...


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