#11 Real-impact Attribution
Imagine instead of attributing meteorological events, the attribution community could also assess real impacts? Dr.Otto introduced this to me as “ another interesting frontier” where the aim is “not to attribute meteorological events but real impacts” that the community are hoping to work on more, or “do at all”. She added that “there are very few publications as it’s rather tricky to do this in a robust way” but linked me up with some that had been published. Remember way back in post 4 we looked at the 2003 Extreme Heat Wave that hit Europe and was responsible for up to 70,000 deaths. This paper claims to be different because it: "explicitly quantifies" the role of human activity on heat-related mortality in an event attribution framework. Brighton Beach? - 2003 - 38.5 degrees What was discovered?! Anthropogenic climate change: Increased the risk of heat mortality by 70 percent in central Paris, and 20 percent in London (which had experie...