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- The strategy used against attribution science is to libel scientists and exaggerate uncertainties to justify inaction.
- Attacks on extreme event attribution are primarily attacks on the scientists rather than the science itself.
Andrew Dessler
Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
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- The economic damage from climate-driven wildfire smoke deaths exceeds all other previously estimated categories of U.S. climate damage combined.
- Expanded irrigation in the central U.S. during the mid-20th century cooled the surface and suppressed heatwave frequency there.
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- Without a shift away from fossil fuels, heatwaves will keep worsening and cause more deaths as they outstrip public health systems' capacity.
- Fossil fuel interests are attacking extreme event attribution to protect their business models.