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Dr. Fredi Otto: Attributing extreme weather to climate change
Dec 14, 2023
Dr. Fredi Otto, the leader of World Weather Attribution, discusses the team's unique ability to link extreme weather events to climate change within weeks. She emphasizes the importance of timely and specific information. Topics include analyzing extreme weather events in East Africa, the process of attributing them to climate change, changing the narrative around climate change, phasing out fossil fuels, outcomes of the COP28 conference, and air pollution in Dubai.
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- Dr. Fredi Otto and her team at World Weather Attribution are able to link extreme weather events to climate change faster than ever before, providing concrete, place-based information that connects people's experiences to the science of climate change.
- Their work has significant effects, generating major media interest, influencing policy discussions, and leading to improvements in early warning systems and adaptation measures.
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The Role of Dr. Freddie Otto and World Weather Attribution
Dr. Freddie Otto and her team at World Weather Attribution are able to link extreme weather events to climate change faster than ever before. Their goal is to provide concrete, place-based information that connects people's experiences to the science of climate change. Rather than waiting years for scientific papers to be published, they conduct their analysis within a week or two after an extreme weather event occurs. By using climate models and weather observations, they determine the extent to which climate change influenced the event. For example, they found that climate change doubled the amount of rainfall in a recent East African rainy season.
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