World Weather Attribution is an international network of climate scientists and institutes formed in 2015 by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh (1961–2021) and Friederike Otto, who developed a methodology to establish the role of climate change in major weather-related disasters. In 2014, to mark 10 years since its founding, the WWA network analysed the ten deadliest extreme weather events around the world over the past decade. These events claimed at least 576,042 lives. This analysis concluded that anthropogenic climate change due to the greenhouse warming driven by the burning of fossil fuels made each of these ten weather events ‘more intense and more likely’.
When the 2024 report was published, Professor Otto explained that the main aim of the WWA was to make people understand that climate change is directly linked to their daily lives. He also pointed out that the media had a key role to play in raising awareness:
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