Pinning extreme weather on climate change: Best ideas of the century

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It never used to be possible to attribute individual weather events to climate change and map their full consequences. Thanks to the work of two pioneering climate scientists, it is now In January 2003, physicist Myles Allen watched as floodwaters from the Thames river threatened to seep into his home in Oxford, UK. He wanted to know why meteorologists at the time were refusing to blame climate change for the event. Later that year, Peter Stott, a climate scientist at the UK’s Met Office, arrived in Italy for a summer holiday. But instead of a week of ice cream and beach reads, Stott found himself trapped in one of the longest, deadliest heatwaves in European history. “For me, that was a really striking experience, because I’d never experienced 40°C heat before,” he says. Both Allen and Stott wanted to pin down the role of climate change in driving the extreme weather they had
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