NOAA Releases Report on Extreme Weather Events

From the AAAS Policy Alert (18 July 2012):

NOAA Releases Report on Extreme Weather Events. The July 2012 study [PDF] by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Explaining Extreme Events of 2011 From a Climate Perspective," found that climate change increased the likeliness of the occurrence of recent extreme weather events. For example, scientists concluded that climate change made the 2011 Texas drought 20 times more likely to occur, and Britain's 2011 November heat wave 62 times more likely to occur.
NOAA also announced recently that the 12-month period between July 2011 and June 2012 was the hottest in U.S. recorded history.

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