š§ LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Attribution Science Can Help Curb Climate Change - The Lever
š§ LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Attribution Science Can Help Curb Climate Change
On this weekās bonus episode of Lever Time Premium, exclusively for The Leverās supporting subscribers, producer Frank Cappello and reporter Julia Rock sit down with climate scientist Dr. Andrew Pershing, who explains the advent of āattribution science.ā
Attribution science is a new field of research that quantifies the role of manmade climate change and its contribution to extreme weather events. In other words, scientists are now able to determine how much of the recent extreme heat in the Southwest is caused by climate change, rather than its correlation with natural weather patterns. Attribution science helps policymakers and the public better grasp the role of human influence in climate-related events ā and how to mitigate and adapt to these changes on a more granular level.
Links:
Climate Shift Indexā¢ Alert - July 10th, 2023(Climate Central)
Introducing the Climate Shift Indexā¢(Climate Central, 2022)
Attribution Science Is A Growing Area Of Focus For Meteorologists(Forbes, 2023)
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s ā that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures ā had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called āgreenhouse gasesā in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.