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Ahmad Elabbar, Adrian Research Fellow
Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:10-14:00
Extreme weather attribution and the evidential grounds for restorative climate justice
- 👤 Speaker: Ahmad Elabbar, Adrian Research Fellow
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:10 - 14:00
- 📍 Venue: Richard King room, Darwin College
Abstract
Extreme weather events are among the most salient outcomes of climate change. In recent years, the science of “extreme event attribution” has emerged, with the aim of distinguishing the subset of extreme weather events that are attributable to anthropogenic climate change from those that are not. A number of authors have recently suggested that such attribution studies can be used to distinguish the “real victims of climate change” from persons harmed by “bad luck weather”, and that drawing this distinction among impacted persons is necessary for the pursuit of climate justice. This talk rejects the use of extreme event attribution as a means for recognising the victims of climate change on both practical and moral grounds, and suggests an alternative evidential standard for the recognition of climate victimhood.
Series This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars series.
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