Wonkbook: Climate change may be to blame for extreme weather events now

Washington Post: A new study finds some extreme weather events wouldn`t have happened without climate change. "The percentage of the earth's land surface covered by extreme heat in the summer has soared in recent decades, from less than 1 percent in the years before 1980 to as much as 13 percent in recent years, according to a new scientific paper. The change is so drastic, the paper says, that scientists can claim with near certainty that events like the Texas heat wave last year, the Russian heat wave of 2010 and...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/07/wonkbook-climate-change-may-be-to-blame-for-extreme-weather-events-now/