re: #127 freetoken

I understand what you’re saying, but the trends are so strong I’m no longer thinking in terms of “single” events anyway. And maybe no one should:

I find it [Climate Change] … often gets underplayed by my fellow scientists. Because one of the opening statements, which I’m sure you’ve probably heard, is “Well you can’t attribute a single event to climate change.” But there is a systematic influence on all of these weather events now-a-days because of the fact that there is this extra water vapor lurking around in the atmosphere than there used to be say 30 years ago. It’s about a 4% extra amount, it invigorates the storms, it provides plenty of moisture for these storms and it’s unfortunate that the public is not associating these with the fact that this is one manifestation of climate change. And the prospects are that these kinds of things will only get bigger and worse in the future.