Extreme Weather is the New Normal with Climate Change
By Stephen Leahy
CAIRNS, Australia, Apr 3, 2012 (Tierramérica)
Extreme weather is fast becoming the new normal. Canada and much of the United States experienced summer temperatures during winter this year, confirming the findings of a new report on extreme weather.
For two weeks this March most of North America baked under extraordinarily warm temperatures that melted all the snow and ice and broke 150-year-old temperature records by large margins.
Climate change plays a role in all extreme weather now - atmosphere is 0.8C hotter and 4-6% wetter - turns out small increases can have big impacts. -- Stephen
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