You're one of the leaders of the world weather attribution initiative. How easy is it to link particular weather events to climate crisis? It depends on type of weather event, and what we need to figure out if a particular event has been made more likely or less likely. In gen it's not so important how bad climate change its a country or society, but how large the vulnerability of the population is. That is often very different in lower income countries than high income countries like the uk.
Over the past week, the UK has been hit with three storms: Dudley, Eunice and Franklin. With high winds and heavy rain, they have brought death and injury, caused extensive damage to trees and infrastructure and stopped transport across the country. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Fredi Otto about how rare these weather events are, and whether the climate crisis could bring us more frequent and intense storms in the future. Help support our independent journalism at
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