Weather Disasters May Be Linked To Climate Change By Ivanna Ramirez

http://earthsky.org/earth/half-of-weather-disasters-linked-to-climate-change-2014

Until a few years ago, it was a truism in science that it was difficult, if not impossible, to link specific weather events to human-caused global warming. Recently that has changed. On November 5, 2015, NOAA announced a new report – published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society – in which 32 groups of scientists from more than 20 countries investigated 28 individual extreme weather events in 2014 and concluded that human-induced climate change played some role in half of them. A November 5 statement from NOAA says:

Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe, drought in East Africa, and stifling heat waves in Australia, Asia, and South America …