The attribution of extreme events to climate change is now a recurrent feature public communication. These statements are part wider refashioning science and societal institutions address the catastrophic risks change. This incorporation catastrophe into communication has heightened tension between scholars concerned with undue alarmism emphasizing accountability those most at risk or harmed by...

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