The Heat, The Fires, The Flooding: Is Climate Change To Blame? : The Two-Way : NPR

Specifically they were talking about the latest heatwave and Martin Hoerling was asked if climate change had anything to do with it.

It's likely, Hoerling said.

"[O]n the heat wave story. Sometimes you'll see 'that heat wave was due to climate change' That's not a very accurate statement, not a very helpful statement. But it's not entirely untrue either," he said. "It may well be that 90 percent of [a given] heat wave was natural, but that the 10 percent that pushed it to record proportions was due to climate change."

In other words, the heatwave may not be triggered by climate change, but its intensity certainly could be.

Hoerling added that his statement is a "defensible scientific statement."

Climate change boosted odds of Texas drought - environment - 10 July 2012 - New Scientist

Some things you really can pin on climate change – the heatwave that struck Texas last year, for instance. A long-term rise in temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions made the hot weather 20 times more likely, modelling suggests.

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Climate Change Activist To Speak At Lake Tahoe - capradio.org

 Dr. Peter Joseph is a retired ER physician.  He says he knows an emergency when he sees one:

JOSEPH: "After seeing the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth,' I realized I've got to take some personal responsibility in this."

Joseph points to heat waves, fires and hurricanes that have struck the country this summer.  He says his message isn't without hope. If we act now, there are things we can do to avoid the worst effects of climate change.