Climate Expert: Extreme Weather Hype Exposed As Real Data Undercuts Attribution Industry
Inside World Weather Attribution - Weather Attribution Alchemy, Part 6
by Roger Pielke Jr Apr 7, 2025
Today’s post is Part 6 in the THB series, Weather Attribution Alchemy.
Last month, climate scientist Kate Marvel of NASA shared “something I have really struggled with” about extreme event attribution. [emphasis, links added]
She was speaking as an invited expert in a public information-gathering session of the U.S. National Academy committee1 on extreme event attribution.
Marvel, who also served at the lead author on the chapter on “Climate Trends” in the 2023 U.S. National Climate Assessment,2 explained to the committee that her struggle resulted from the seemingly contradictory findings of (a) the IPCC — which does not detect long-term trends in most metrics of extreme weather, and (b) claims made of extreme event attribution — which seem to find large changes in just about every type of extreme weather:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/climate-expert-extreme-weather-hype-exposed-as-real-data-undercuts-attribution-industry/
