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Important new article by Lahsen and RibotPolitics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change https://t.co/Ayef8bMxnf (open access) pic.twitter.com/AqWVHAJRM2
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021
Attribution is political
"Powerful science leaders hope that identification of the role of climate change in extreme weather events will “spur more immediate action” to mitigate climate change and to avert the damages associated with such events"
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021
"tension between climate-centric framings of disasters and attributions that foreground… poverty and socio-economic inequality, is a function of the current climate regime's focus on GHG reductions (climate mitigation) over the reduction of deeper, social causes…"
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021
Agree 100%
"The desire to persuade the public of the dangers of climate change via attributions of climate events pressures scientists and the media alike to attribute extreme climate events (and associated crises) to climate change."
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021
Read these two paragraphs pic.twitter.com/5o3bdK5qDA
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021
Climate as cause of societal impacts?
It's more complicated than that pic.twitter.com/Z2WCY80mFT— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021
