Minnesota Public Radio: The conventional wisdom has been that you can't pin one extreme weather event on climate change or "global warming." That may still be true, but we may have moved into a new era where climate change can be cited as having greatly increased the odds of extreme heat waves. A NOAA/UK Met Office study released this week brings climate perspective to 6 extreme weather events from 2011. The analogy of climate change to individual extreme weather events has been used many times to a baseball player...
URL: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/updraft/archive/2012/07/study_climate_change_makes_hea.shtml
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