This year's rash of severe weather has climate scientists scrambling to understand the link between increasing emissions and natural disasters. My article for the Daily Climate focuses on the push to attribute and predict extreme events, which should better inform policymakers.
We often want to know the history of something (cars, relationships, pets) before we invest in it. Learning about the past helps us understand how things, people, and ideas got to where they are today. But often the history or story behind an idea gets left out of science writing. From the Fall 2011 ScienceWriters.