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.

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