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When weather disaster strikes, observers near and far ask the same question: Climate change is it or is it not?
The simplest answer, yes, lacks specificity. All weather is a joint human-nature venture, because humans have made the atmosphere hotter than it has been in 125,000 years. Disasters are nothing new. Assigning blame for them is.
A breakthrough out of the UK is providing better, more nuanced answers faster with powerful implications for citizens, first responders and the media.
Friederike Otto is at the heart of it. Otto is a climate scientist at Imperial College London and coleader of World Weather Attribution