New York Times: Via Michael Roberts, a new paper (pdf) by James Hansen and associates that helps clear up a couple of points about climate change. The first is the relationship between extreme weather events and climate change. The normal, cautious thing is to say that there`s no way to attribute any particular event, like a heat wave in the Ukraine, to global warming - and news media have basically been bullied by this argument into rarely mentioning climate change even when reporting on extreme weather. But...
URL: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/dicing-with-the-climate/
Enclosure: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2012/20120105_PerceptionsAndDice.pdf
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