Posted on 09/09/2013 7:34:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Man-made climate change contributed to some of 2012's most extreme weather, including the spring and summer heat waves that baked parts of the United States and Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal communities along the eastern coast of the country, according to a new report.
The study, which includes research from 18 different teams from around the world, examined 12 extreme weather events from last year and found that human-caused global warming increased the likelihood of half of the incidents, while the others were dictated by natural weather variability.
"We've got some new evidence here that human influence has changed the risk, and has changed it enough that we can detect it," Peter Stott, a climatologist at the United Kingdom Met Office, the U.K.'s national weather service, told reporters in a news briefing on Thursday (Sept. 5). "There's a great deal of variability, [but] nevertheless, we've seen evidence for that increase in risk." [6 Unexpected Effects of Climate Change]
The report, published in the September 2013 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, attempts to pinpoint the impact of man-made climate change on extreme weather events. But, making these connections is extremely challenging, said Thomas Karl, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climactic Data Center (NCDC), and chair of the Subcommittee on Global Change Research (part of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, made of up several federal departments and agencies).
"It would be very convenient if we were able to say, 'this event — whatever it happens to be — had no effect from human contributions,' but the reality, however, is a little messier," Karl said.
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Yeah yeah yeah...,my dog predicted the same thing, right before he skooched across the lawn, scratching his butt.
It’s the vicious hurricane season of 2013 that has me worried. That, and the frightful heatwave that swept the country this summer. We’re all gonna die.
OK, if human-caused global warming contributed to the arctic ice melt then 2013 proves that human-caused global warming contributed to the huge ice buildup. If we want more ice, we need more warming!
Or is the effect only one way? /rhetorical
Really? Are people buying this crap anymore? Apparently not in Australia.
Bull Obama.
The end is here! Grab your rifle, helmet & cans of tune!
Would someone please wake me up when the sky really and truly does finally start falling this time?
So they are saying they can`t pin warming on any one single event, so why should we believe they can pin all events on warming.
They are saying weather caused more weather.
Now it's more correct!!
This crap never gets old - to the people that put it out.
Utter cr@p.
We’ve almost reached 3,000 days since the last cat3+ hurricane made landfall in the US. Its almost mid-September and have yet to have a hurricane in the Atlantic, and only 7 or 8 named storms this season.
The weather is so “angry” its locked itself in its room.
Like Bush, climate change causes everything
THERE IS NO F’N WARMING!!!!
(Yawn)
What a pantload of desperation.
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