Notes:  See some of the other bites in the "extreme weather" and "Risk, Stakes & Probability" categories, especially Steve Sherwood's new variation in Weather is like rolling dice.

Recently, Kevin Trenberth, Jim Hansen and a number of other leading climate scientists have stopped saying the standard line, "Extreme weather has many causes, and there's no way to tell whether warming  caused this event," and begun emphasizing instead that warming almost certainly contributed to the event.   See

Climate Scientists Now Connect Extreme Weather with Global Climate Change

Bite Source: Tom Smerling

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