Haiti and the Global climate risk index 2014Stanleylucas
Similar to Friederike Otto, University of Oxford - OECD Workshop on “Climate change, Assumptions, Uncertainties and Surprises”, 3-4 September 2020 (20)
2. Generally impossible to say “this event would not have
occurred without human influence”, but we can ask
how the likelihood of this type of extreme event
occurring has changed due to external factors
Otto 2017
3. Attribution studies around the world
Not representative!
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-affects-extreme-weather-around-the-world
4. Combining & synthesizing lines of evidence
Heavy Rainfall in France
Windstorm
Friederike
Drought in Ethiopia
van Oldenborgh et al., 2020
5. 2003 – present: reported deaths from extreme weather &
where the role of climate change is known
Otto et al., 2020
6. Are we looking at the right hazards?
Harrington & Otto 2020