Seeking better answers to climate change, extreme weather questions - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

the science of climate change attribution is still in its infancy, as noted in the Nature story and an accompanying editorial.
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While the ACE researchers, led by Peter Stott of the UK Met Office, see their work as responding to a legitimate - and growing - public need for information, Curry sees political motivations as the primary driver of such work.

“Never let a good disaster go to waste in terms of trying to play on people’s emotions to generate support for CO2 mitigation policies,” she wrote on her blog.

Children want to learn about the environment, survey finds | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Pupils would rather study green issues than traditional subjects such as science and history, data from the Co-operative shows
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And parents are confused about what causes climate change, with two-thirds thinking it is the result of the hole in the ozone layer, more than half (55%) think carbon monoxide is involved and 34% think acid rain has a role.