Climate experts are raising alarms about potential bias in the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report after the appointment of Dr. Friederike Otto to a lead authorship role. Otto, a climatologist at Imperial College London, has openly acknowledged that her field of “event attribution” science was developed “with the courts in mind,” raising concern the IPCC’s traditionally neutral assessments could be hijacked by climate litigation supporters.

Who is Dr. Otto?

Dr. Friederike Otto is best known for co-founding World Weather Attribution (WWA) in 2014, alongside Climate Central. WWA specializes in “rapid attribution” studies released in the immediate aftermath of heatwaves, floods, and hurricanes, claiming to quantify how much more likely or intense such events became due to human-caused climate change.

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