Studies find no link between October 2013 blizzard and climate change

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/iowa/studies-find-no-link-between-october-blizzard-and-climate-change/article_33dfb94e-480c-11e4-b2a3-001a4bcf6878.html

POSTED: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 2:09 PM
By Julie Anderson / World-Herald staff writer

This week will mark the one-year anniversary of the freak blizzard that swept along the Nebraska-South Dakota border last fall.

It started with record rains Oct. 3, continued with record snow through Oct. 5 and ended with three people dead on Nebraska roads and livestock losses exceeding 3,000 in Nebraska and 20,000 in South Dakota.



PHOTO BY CHADRON POLICE DEPARTMENT

This is the scene in Chadron following an ice storm and blizzard that brought heart-breaking losses to the Nebraska Panhandle in early October of 2013.


Those following last week's climate change talks last week in New York and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's release of a report outlining its potential impact on Nebraska may wonder whether the two – freak blizzard and climate change – are linked.

Not so much, concluded a new report based on 22 studies analyzing 16 extreme weather events on four continents in 2013.

FULL story at link.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence (of a causal link).

Climate science is really the intersection of several more discrete disciplines, including geology, meteorology, astrophysics, volcanology, etc.

It's very challenging to demonstrate with confidence a link between a particular weather event and climate change.

But it's also unlikely that this weather event wasn't in some way affected by changing global climate conditions.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. It's sorta like the link between childhood abuse and later aggressive behavior.

So this 25 year-old slugs somebody who insults him in a bar, and we find that he had an abusive childhood in which he was beaten a lot by both parents. Prove there's a link between his present behavior and his past.

[hatrack]

2. Oh, thank God, now we can stop about silly "Climate Change"!!

What a relief!

[yeoman6987]

4. Most have already

If we have 20 percent on outside we are lucky. I am talking down and dirty want change types.

[jwirr]

5. Nebraska is known for its freaky snow storms. What I think is connected to climate change is the

fact that the east coast has had a lot of Minnesota type storms in the last couple of years. That is not normal.

[AverageJoe90]

6. Well, this is the Great Plains after all.

Even here in (North) Texas, we're no strangers to wild weather in either spring and fall.