Weather and climate service providers around the world are looking to issue assessments of the human role in recent extreme weather events. For this attribution to be of value, it is important that vulnerability is acknowledged and questions are framed appropriately.
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Stone, D.A., Rosier, S.M. & Frame, D.J. The question of life, the universe and event attribution. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 276–278 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01012-x
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