When natural disasters happen, climate change is often blamed as a culprit. But attribution research actually shows that infrastructure, institutions, and technology are more important factors in how costly weather is to human communities.

This panel will examine the tension between the rhetoric and reality of extreme-weather attribution and what this means for policymaking and the future of regions most vulnerable to climate extremes.

Submit questions to Price.StClair@aei.org or on Twitter with #AskAEIClimate.

AEI’s Roger Pielke joins the Breakthrough Institute’s Ted Nodhaus to discuss climate change, the science of extreme-weather attribution, and his New Atlantis essay “Did Exxon Make It Rain Today?”

Thank you for registering for the event “Is Climate Change to Blame for Natural Disasters? The Science and Politics of Extreme Weather.”

A livestream will be available here at 6:00 PM on Monday, April 22nd.