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Last updated: 13 Jun 2019
Resources on attribution science to communicate the linkages between extreme weather events and climate change.
Documents and Publications
Concurrent 2018 hot extremes across Northern Hemisphere due to human‐induced climate change
American Geophysical Union; Wiley
2019
News
Downpours of torrential rain more frequent with global warming—USask-led study
University of Saskatchewan
03 June 2019
News
Japan’s deadly 2018 heatwave ‘could not have happened without climate change’
Carbon Brief
30 May 2019
News
NASA study: Human influence on global droughts goes back 100 years
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
01 May 2019
News
Climate change to blame for Hurricane Maria’s extreme rainfall
American Geophysical Union
16 April 2019
Documents and Publications
Explaining extreme events of 2017 from a climate perspective
American Meteorological Society
2018
News
2018 UK summer heatwave made thirty times more likely due to climate change
Met Office
06 December 2018
News
India: Understanding extreme weather events through attribution analysis
Mongabay
09 October 2018
News
USA: Climate change means Hurricane Florence will dump 50% more rain
Guardian, the
13 September 2018
News
We have crossed the tipping point on climate change
International Centre for Climate Change and Development
16 August 2018
News
USA: Climate change and wildfires – how do we know if there is a link?
Conversation Media Group, the
10 August 2018
News
Climate experts now cite global warming during extreme weather disasters
NBCUniversal
31 July 2018
News
Climate change made today's heatwaves more likely, but what does that mean for businesses?
Business Green - Incisive Media Investments Limited 2010
27 July 2018
Documents and Publications
Taylor and Francis
2018
Documents and Publications
Hurricane Harvey links to ocean heat content and climate change adaptation
American Geophysical Union
2018
News
Risk of extreme weather events higher if Paris Agreement goals aren’t met, Stanford researchers find
Stanford University
15 February 2018
Documents and Publications
Explaining extreme events of 2016 from a climate perspective
American Meteorological Society
2017
Documents and Publications
Climate attribution science – a useful tool to plan for extreme heat events
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
2017
Documents and Publications
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
2017
News
Deploying the science of extreme weather attribution in the courts
Carbon Brief
08 September 2017
Documents and Publications
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
2017
Documents and Publications
Tropical cyclones and climate change: Fact sheet
Climate Council of Australia
2017
Documents and Publications
Communicating extreme weather event attribution – Research from India and Kenya
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
2017
Documents and Publications
The drought in Kenya, 2016–2017: Science summary
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
2017
Documents and Publications
Angry summer 2016/17: climate change super-charging extreme weather
Climate Council of Australia
2017
Educational Material
Raising risk awareness: resource toolkit for communicating climate change attribution
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre; Oxford University; Climate and Development Knowledge Network; Climate Central
2017
Multimedia
How did climate change affect that extreme weather event?
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The
2017
Documents and Publications
Super-charged storms in Australia: The influence of climate change
Climate Council of Australia
2016
Documents and Publications
Attribution of extreme weather events in the context of climate change
National Academies Press
2016
Documents and Publications
Explaining extreme events of 2015 from a climate perspective
American Meteorological Society
2016
Documents and Publications
(Un)natural disasters: communicating linkages between extreme events and climate change
World Meteorological Organization
2016