Monday, 25 February 2013

Climate scientists link global warming to extreme weather

Blame giant, increasingly lazy atmospheric waves
There has been a healthy debate in the scientific community about the linkage, if any, between the recent spate of extreme weather events and the ongoing increase in global temperatures. Now a group of researchers reports they've uncovered an atmospheric mechanism that lends credence to the argument that, yes, global warming is to blame for at least some of our increasingly mucked-up weather.…