AR7 Attribution Takeover

By naming extreme‑event attribution advocates (e.g., WWA cofounder Friederike Otto) to lead IPCC AR7 WG1’s extremes chapter, the panel pivots from long‑horizon detection‑and‑attribution toward single‑event causation aligned with media and litigation. — This potential methodological reorientation would influence legal causation claims, government risk messaging, and the evidentiary basis for climate liability and policy, affecting public trust in the IPCC’s neutrality.