The global scientific body on climate change will report soon that only
greenhouse gas emissions can explain freak weather patterns.

Simultaneous changes in sea ice, glaciers, droughts, floods,
ecosystems, ocean acidification and wildlife migration are taking
place.

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4761804.stm

Are they seriously suggesting that all 'freak weather patterns' are caused
by GW ?
May I propose , to follow Philip Edens comments ,that that site is killfiled
forthwith ?

RonB
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The global scientific body on climate change will report soon that only
greenhouse gas emissions can explain freak weather patterns.

Simultaneous changes in sea ice, glaciers, droughts, floods,
ecosystems, ocean acidification and wildlife migration are taking
place.

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4761804.stm

"Ron Button" wrote in message
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| Are they seriously suggesting that all 'freak weather patterns' are caused
| by GW ?
| May I propose , to follow Philip Edens comments ,that that site is
killfiled
| forthwith ?
|
| wrote in message
| ups.com...
| The global scientific body on climate change will report soon that only
| greenhouse gas emissions can explain freak weather patterns.
|
| Simultaneous changes in sea ice, glaciers, droughts, floods,
| ecosystems, ocean acidification and wildlife migration are taking
| place.
|
| More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4761804.stm
|
|

The article I read on the BBC website stated that the global body concerned
considered that the *collection* of freak events occuring, especially in the
last ten years or so, indicated that man-made effects were the only
plausible cause for what is now observed. Reference was also made to the
possibility of a "point of no return" having been or about to be passed
concerning the melting of the Greenland ice cap, which has been widely
reported in a number of sources.

It was *specifically* stated that no one - or even two or three - freak
event(s) alone could be attributed to any cause other than natural
variability, and the panel had waited until the frequency and nature of the
exceptional events had reached the current level before changing their
phraseology from "probable" to "certain" with regard to an anthropogenic
cause.

So, no they are *not* claiming that *all* freak events are caused by
man-made global warming. They are stating that the *total* of what is
observed can only reasonably be explained this way, which is not the same
thing at all. To take a nearer at home analogy, it is like the difference
between stating that all road accidents are caused by bad driving (which is
not true regardless of how large the actual percentage so caused may be) and
the observation that over 3 000 road deaths in the UK each year indicates
there is a lot of bad driving going on.
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In article , "Ron Button" writes:

Are they seriously suggesting that all 'freak weather patterns' are caused
by GW ?


Why didn't you *read* the article to find out?

Cheers,

keith


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