Wednesday 11 May 2011

Extreme weather, or evidence of climate change?

A useful discussion about how climate scientists are attempting to answer the question is it an extreme event, or is it climate change? Attribution of a single weather event to climate change is difficult to demonstrate, but this article provides an accessible introduction to the approaches that are being used to try to uncover those links. The article is on the environment360 website, run by Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/whats_with_the_weather_is_climate_change_to_blame/2388/.

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