Science protocol determines attribution of world weather events

Scientific protocol continues to determine the attribution of world weather events.

Anthropogenic climate change continues to deliver record making and breaking weather around the world and yet we still won’t directly attribute those differences to climate change.

That stance, from a scientific view, is understandable, but it provides a massive opening for the doubters and those in denial to enter the conversation and make it an argument.

Those in denial and those who profit from further doubt simply point to what they see as indecision and so with little trouble convince the uninitiated majority that the science is not yet settled and we should simply continue with business as usual until the world’s climatologists reach an understandable consensus.

An example of this dilemma arises in a story published on July 31 this year by Climate Central headed: “Record-Setting Drought Intensifies in Parched California”.

The story says: “While the drought can’t be directly linked to climate change, the warming of the planet is expected to make already dry places drier. And future droughts could be even worse.”

Half of California is in “exception drought”, the highest category recognized by the U.S. Drought Monitor, and although it is the worst since records began, the link between it and climate change is still seen as fuzzy.