On 04 Jul 2003 14:58:26 GMT, "Claire W. Gilbert"
wrote:


"David Ball" wrote in message
news
On 4 Jul 2003 02:07:30 -0700, (Michael
McNeil) wrote:

Uh, I suggest you look a little farther afield if you want to
find the imbeciles responsible. The WMO issued a press release.
Nothing more. Yes, it documented some interesting weather events, but
they were quite careful to tell a cautionary tale.

http://www.wmo.ch/web/Press/Press695.doc


You and others MISS THE POINT. I don't know if you are inexperienced or
what, but if you know the WMO, you should know that "unprecedented" in the
Independent article refers to meteorologists and atmospheric scientists and
their professional organizations being exceedingly cautious in drawing
conclusions about the weather, and as the Independent article says, this is
not some staid, cautious, end of the year, report, but a special,
UNPRECEDENTED report.


LOL. Hardly. This is a press release, one of many that the WMO
issues every year. It documents some interesting weather and nothing
more. The WMO was quite careful to state that this MIGHT be an
indication of something. Did you see the word MIGHT in the news story?
I didn't either.
Let's also keep what the WMO had to say in some kind of
perspective, shall we? A heat-wave in India that had a high mortality
rate? How is that different from the heat-wave last year there? Or the
year before? Or the year before? Something that happens every year can
hardly be called unprecedented, now can it.
Yes, there were major tornado outbreaks in the US in May.
There was also a period of unprecedented calm weather in the 3rd week
of May when little or no severe weather occurred.
Have you seen any studies that have linked these extreme
events to climate change? I haven't, so getting your knickers in a
knot because of a press release by the WMO is hardly warrented, now is
it? If you have, you might want to let the WMO know, because they were
quite cautionary in what they had to say.