{"id":41082,"date":"2024-09-28T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41082"},"modified":"2024-09-28T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T15:17:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/09\/28\/word-of-the-day-990\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Attribution science<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A revolution in weather forecasting could soon see warnings of forthcoming heatwaves, storms or other extreme events accompanied by specific information on the role climate change has played in fuelling [sic] them, as meteorologists seek new ways to bring the reality of our warming planet home to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Key to this idea is the growing field of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2387333-why-knowing-how-climate-change-contributes-to-extreme-weather-is-key\/\">attribution science<\/a>, which involves examining extreme weather events after the fact to quantify the impact of climate change. It involves simulating an event twice, first under real-world conditions and then again in a fictional world where there is no human-caused climate change. The difference between those two scenarios reveals the extent to which rising emissions made matters worse.<em> [&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2447643-weather-forecasts-could-warn-about-events-made-worse-by-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weather forecasts could warn about events made worse by climate change<\/a><em>,&#8221; Madeleine Cuff, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (21 September 2024, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attribution science: A revolution in weather forecasting could soon see warnings of forthcoming heatwaves, storms or other extreme events accompanied by specific information on the role climate change has played in fuelling [sic] them, as meteorologists seek new ways to bring the reality of our warming planet home to the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/09\/28\/word-of-the-day-990\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41083,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082\/revisions\/41083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}