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Is extreme weather caused by global warming?

What the science says...

Select a level... Basic Intermediate

There is growing empirical evidence that warming temperatures cause more intense hurricanes,
heavier rainfalls and flooding, increased conditions for wildfires and dangerous heat waves.

Climate Myth...

Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming

"The 30 major droughts of the 20th century were likely natural in all respects; and, hence, they are "indicative of what could also happen in the future," as Narisma et al. state in their concluding paragraph. And happen they will. Consequently, the next time a serious drought takes hold of some part of the world and the likes of Al Gore blame it on the "carbon footprints" of you and your family, ask them why just the opposite of what their hypothesis suggests actually occurred over the course of the 20th century, i.e., why, when the earth warmed - and at a rate and to a degree that they claim was unprecedented overthousands of years - the rate-of-occurrence of severe regional droughts actually declined." (source: CO2 Science .. http://www.co2science.org/articles/V10/N29/EDIT.php )

There are numerous examples of increased extreme weather frequency already being attributed to humans in the published peer-reviewed scientific literature .. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110216/full/470316a.html . For example, Pall et al. (2011) .. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09762.html :

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"Here we present a multi-step, physically based ‘probabilistic event attribution’ framework showing that it is very likely that global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions substantially increased the risk of flood occurrence in England and Wales in autumn 2000"
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much more: http://www.skepticalscience.com/extreme-weather-global-warming-intermediate.htm

this link is linked into that page so, not sure, but it may be more permanent ..
http://www.skepticalscience.com/extreme-weather-global-warming.htm

you obviously don't trust the science which i should have told you in a reply
to your "I am not into global warming, rather conservation..." back here ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=95615978

i didn't read that carefully enough the first time .. i don't believe you can be
an honest conservationist and not accept the climate science at the same time ..