Myles Allen lectures in the department of atmospheric, oceanic and planetary physics at the University of Oxford, where he specialises in the science of causal attribution of weather events to climate change. He is the author of two chapters on the subject of attribution and liability in the forthcoming book (edited by Kenny Tang) The Finance of Climate Change: a guide for governments, corporations and investors (Risk Books, 2005).

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The G8 leaders should take courage and admit that making polluters pay through the law courts is the simple, straight, if scary solution to global warming, says Myles Allen.