Unnatural disasters: how we can spot climate's role in specific extreme events
- Written by Sophie Lewis, Research fellow, Australian National University

These days, after an extreme weather event like a cyclone, bushfire, or major storm, it’s common to find people asking: was it climate change?
We also often hear people saying it is impossible to attribute any single weather event to climate change, as former prime minister Tony Abbott and the then environment minister Greg Hunt said after...