As per a high-level scientific advisory panel, climate science has advanced considerably in the recent years and climate science experts can correctly sense the fingerprints of global warming on some particular severe weather events, including a heat wave.

For long, scientists have been giving the same response to the question if an event of weird weather was caused by global warming. They have always insisted that they can’t call a single event accountable for climate change.

However, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine reported that Science has progressed to the point that this isn’t true as an unqualified blanket statement anymore.

Beginning in 2004, numerous complex peer-reviewed studies discovered that the chances of some severe events were boosted by human activity caused climate change.

In a 163-page report released on Friday, the academies said that the new field of detecting global warming fingerprints was scientifically convincing.

Since the days of President Abraham Lincoln, the private non-profit has been advising the government on complex, science-oriented matters.

Academies report chairman David Titley, a Pennsylvania State University meteorology professor said that when it comes to heat waves, droughts, heavy rain and some other events, scientists who indulge in rigorous research can tell if they were more likely or more severe due to the human activity-caused global warming or not. Such a thing matters.

In an interview, Titley, a retired Navy admiral, said, “While we plan for climate, we live in weather. These extremes are making climate real when in fact they are attributable to climate change”. The report suggested that not all weird weather patterns can be termed guilty with any degree of certainty on global warming.

Report co-author Marshall Shepherd, a University of Georgia meteorology professor, said that for a particular class and kind of event there is a human fingerprint.