A climate activist finds hope in Washington - The York Daily Record

With climate change-induced disasters in mind, my wife Patty and I, along with Steve Izzo, traveled to Washington as the York contingent of Citizens Climate Lobby. There, we joined with other volunteers from the U.S. and Canada to ask our legislators to act on the science by moving toward clean, renewable energy sources now.

At the CCL conference, we heard from renowned climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, who explained how the release of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is building up greenhouse gases and preventing more and more of the sun's energy from escaping the earth's atmosphere.
...Maybe when I return to Washington, I'll travel in an electric car charged with power made from wind, roll down my windows, listen to the quiet breeze, and breathe clean air. After last week, I can dare to dream again.

World Climate Report » Extreme Precipitation Update

we’ll leave you with this incredible one sentence summary of an article by Laurens Bouwer in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society – a statement that still has us shaking our heads:

“Lacking significant impact from anthropogenic warming so far, the best way to assess the potential influence of climate change on disaster losses may be to analyze future projections rather than historical data.”

So we should disregard the lessons from past data on hail in China, extreme precipitation events in Hawaii, floods in southern Germany, or the historical occurences of other extreme weather, and instead turn to climate model projections for guidance? We can only hope that he is kidding.