Drought in Europe

Climate attribution i.e. supposed detection of human-caused factors, is in the eye of the beholder. This article concludes: 'At the recent GWPF annual lecture Professor Steven Koonin of New York University said climate attribution studies were the scientific equivalent of being told you had won the lottery, after you had won the lottery.'
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A new study concludes that when placed into a long-term context recent drought events in Europe are within the range of natural variability and are not unprecedented over the last millennium, says Net Zero Watch.

The 2003 European heatwave and drought has a special place in the history of the study of our changing climate,

It was the first event that scientists attributed to human-induced climate change.

A paper by Stott et al published in Nature concluded, "Human influence has at least doubled the risk of a regional heatwave like the European Summer of 2003."

This was later strengthened and the event was said to be directly caused by humans.

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