The Climate Project That Changed How We Understand Extreme Weather

The World Weather Attribution group's revolutionary approach allows scientists for the first time to specifically link an individual weather event to manmade warming.

When a handful of scientists tried to publish rapid research into the role of climate change in record rainfall that lashed Britain in 2015, they were told their high-speed approach was "not science".

Fast forward to 2021.

As extreme heat scorched North America, the same scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group concluded that the record-shattering temperatures would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change.

This time people paid attention.