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The question of life, the universe and event attribution

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Weather and climate service providers around the world are looking to issue assessments of the human role in recent extreme weather events. For this attribution to be of value, it is important that vulnerability is acknowledged and questions are framed appropriately.

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Fig. 1: Schematic to illustrate different framing options for event attribution studies.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment of Aotearoa New Zealand through the Smart Ideas and Endeavour programmes.

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Stone, D.A., Rosier, S.M. & Frame, D.J. The question of life, the universe and event attribution. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 276–278 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01012-x

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