"A National Academy of Sciences report on extreme climate event attribution confronts political climate denialism with scientific evidence."
"A new assessment from the United States’ most influential science advisory panel says climate attribution science has moved beyond asking whether human-caused global warming is driving deadly heat waves, floods and wildfires. The focus is now on how severe future impacts will become as extreme events increasingly overlap.
“As the frequencies of multiple types of climate extremes have increased, the likelihood of them co-occurring simultaneously or in close succession, in the same location or across regions, has increased,” the 14 authors wrote in the extreme weather attribution report produced by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a congressionally charted independent organization that advises the U.S. government on science and technology.
The trend toward “more compounding, cascading, and record-breaking events” challenges existing attribution research methods aimed at finding a climate fingerprint for acute events in a limited geographic area, the scientists wrote. They also argued that more attribution research can help communities adapt to intensifying extremes."
Bob Berwyn reports for Inside Climate News July 16, 2026.
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