Thursday, November 1, 2012

The risk of extreme weather on upswing

Times-Union: In the realm of man-made global warming and climate science, any link to an extreme hurricane, like Sandy, is often described by scientists with a baseball metaphor. A slugger on steroids hits more home runs, but attributing any single home run solely to steroids is not a simple matter. And asking whether steroids caused a specific home run -- or whether climate change is responsible for the massive hurricane that smashed into the Northeast -- may be the wrong question to ask. A better question...

URL: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/The-risk-of-extreme-weather-on-upswing-3998651.php
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