Recent weather disasters consistent with climate change models: NOAA

Source: AFP

PARIS (AFP) – The flurry of exceptional weather disasters in recent years is completely consistent with scenarios about an aspect of climate change, the head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Tuesday.

Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the top US agency for meteorology and environmental science, said extreme weather events, when viewed individually, should not be considered as firm evidence that climate change was under way.

"At the same time, (what) we are seeing, with more and more of these extreme events, is completely consistent with what we would expect to see under a climate-changed world," Lubchenco said in response to a question at a press conference during her European visit.

"Many of the events we are seeing are characterised as a hundred- or a thousand-year event, and yet the climate models suggest that those types of events, those extreme events, are likely to become more and more frequent as the climate system is increasingly disrupted."

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obviously, climate change sounds like something normal is happening --

and even more obviously, that would suit the Repugs and oil industry!

"Of course our friends in the 'lame-stream media' wouldn't lie to us about the likely destruction of our entire global civilization so a handful of corporations would monetarily benefit from our own demise, would they?"

-- Sorry, my Palin impersonation needs a bit of tweaking - fewer syllables-per-word and more eye-winks will help me perfect it... Oh, and that pesky idea that 'what I presume' is 'likely to be currently happening."