Australia’s hottest year was no freak event: humans caused it

Click here to access article by Sophie Lewis and David Karoly from The Conversation (Australia).

What caused these extreme temperatures? Climate scientists have a problem: because climate deals with averages and trends, we can’t attribute specific records to a particular cause.

But our research has made significant headway in identifying the causes of climate events, by calculating how much various factors increase the risk of extreme climate events occurring. And we have found sobering results.