Public alarm over climate change grows | Yale Daily News
Michael Mann, a climatologist who directs the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, said that while scientists cannot conclusively prove that any single weather event in 2012 was caused by global warming, he believes the succession of climate extremities in the past year have elicited public alarm. He added that while there is no scientific consensus on whether global warming is causing more intense storms, there are “suggestive connections.”
“There is reason to believe that storms like Nemo might become more intense on average as the atmosphere warms, because of the clash of increasingly warm, moist air from the south with cold air outbreaks from the north,” Mann said in a Wednesday email.
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