Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Study links warming to some 2012 wild weather

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130905/DA8KDGAG2.html

Sep 5, 2013
By SETH BORENSTEIN

WASHINGTON (AP) - A study of a dozen of 2012's wildest weather events found that man-made global warming increased the likelihood of about half of them, including Superstorm Sandy's devastating surge and the blistering U.S. summer heat.

The other half - including a record wet British summer and the U.S. drought last year - simply reflected the random freakiness of weather, researchers with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the British meteorological office concluded in a report issued Thursday.

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