Tue July 10, 2012 The Heat, The Fires, The Flooding: Is Climate
Change To Blame? Originally published on Tue July 10, 2012 5:11
pm Every time there's been a bout of severe weather, like the
heat wave in the northeast, the wild fires in the west and
flooding across the U.K, the talk, naturally, turns to climate
change. The big question: How much does global warming have to
do with severe weather? The Guardian has a story today that
states unequivocally that "climate change researchers have been
able to attribute recent examples of extreme weather to the
effects of human activity on the planet's climate systems for
the first time, marking a major step forward in climate
research." Here's the money graph: "Last year's record warm
November in the UK – the second hottest since records began in
1659 – was at least 60 times more likely to happen because of
climate change than owing to natural variations in the earth's
weather systems, according to the peer-reviewed studies by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm