Climate ‘attribution is political’: New Paper: ‘Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change’
New paper on extreme weather attribution: “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.”
By: Admin – Climate DepotDecember 10, 2021 12:46 PM
🧵Important new article by Lahsen and Ribot
Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change https://t.co/Ayef8bMxnf (open access) pic.twitter.com/AqWVHAJRM2
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@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”
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@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…”
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@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.”
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021
Read these two paragraphs pic.twitter.com/5o3bdK5qDA
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021
Climate as cause of societal impacts?It’s more complicated than that pic.twitter.com/Z2WCY80mFT
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021
