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Are Climate Change and Extreme Weather Related? Attribution Science, Explained
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August 17, 2021
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6:14Now PlayingWe’ve all asked ourselves: does that storm, fire or drought we just lived through have anything to do with climate change? Thanks to a relatively new field called attribution science, climate experts are now more able to provide answers.
Attribution science relies on complex computer models and lots of data. It has some limitations, but the insights it generates can also help us become more resilient to extreme weather.
To learn more about how climate models are built and how climate change is changing our world, take a look at some of our past coverage:
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