Science can now link climate change with some extreme weather events

A committee report, chaired by PSU Professor David Titley, found that scientists can now confidently attribute some heat waves and cold events to human-caused climate change.

Penn State professor David Titley

Penn State professor David Titley chaired an international committee investigating whether science can confidently link human-induced climate change with different types of extreme weather events. Here, Titley gives a public lecture on the committee's findings, which published on March 11. Image: Jennifer Burris Olson / National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

By Liam Jackson, March 11, 2016

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