The New York Times, 12/29/2017, “How We Know It Was Climate Change,” by Noah S. Diffenbaugh (’92), Op-Ed Contributor.
STANFORD, Calif. — This was a year of devastating weather, including historic hurricanes and wildfires here in the United States. Did climate change play a role? Increasingly, scientists are able to answer that question — and increasingly, the answer is yes.
My lab recently published a new framework for examining connections between global warming and extreme events. Other scientists are doing similar research. How would we go about testing whether global warming has influenced the events that occurred this year? Read more