Heavy weather

According to a New York Times analysis, when Hurricane Andrew made landfall in Florida in 1992 and killed 22 people, it received twice the traditional news coverage that Irene did. Most climate scientists responded equivocally, as scientists do: climate is not weather, and although all extreme weath...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 477; no. 7363; pp. 131 - 132
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 08.09.2011
Nature Publishing Group
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Climate change
Climate Change - statistics & numerical data
Cyclonic Storms - statistics & numerical data
Disasters - statistics & numerical data
editorial
Extreme weather
Global warming
Greenhouse gases
Human influences
Humanities and Social Sciences
Hurricanes
Meteorology - methods
Meteorology - trends
multidisciplinary
Murders & murder attempts
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Scientists
Weather
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ISSN0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI10.1038/477131b

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Summary:According to a New York Times analysis, when Hurricane Andrew made landfall in Florida in 1992 and killed 22 people, it received twice the traditional news coverage that Irene did. Most climate scientists responded equivocally, as scientists do: climate is not weather, and although all extreme weather events are now subject to human influence, global warming driven by greenhouse gases cannot be said to 'cause' any specific manifestation of weather in a simple deterministic sense.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/477131b