Reuters: The torrential rain that the NorthEast of the United States has experienced has raised questions in the public over whether the extreme weather was caused by global warming. Jason Szep reports that the Atlantic is warming faster than scientists projected even a decade ago. Storms such as the one seen this week from Virginia to New York will become more common. The Insurance Information Institute says that Northeast looked "woefully unprepared" to the risk of floods.
Was the NorthEast floods linked to global warming?
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Why is it that we tend to abandon our standards for establishing cause and effect when it comes to climate science? It's time we stop blaming every single weather anomaly on global warming and look at the issue with cooler heads.