The framing of the question in this way will always result and an answer of “you can’t say that this specific event was caused by climate change”, and in many w

The framing of the question in this way will always result and an answer of “you can’t say that this specific event was caused by climate change”, and in many ways asking that exact question is a way to discredit the science. Science is based on observation of events and then making a theory that can predict likely outcomes in the future. From that perspective, the accurate question becomes “is this event consistent with what we predict the effect of climate change will be?”, and from that point of view, the answer is absolutely “YES”.