New
York Times: Has the recent spate of extreme
weather—floods in Pakistan and Northwestern China,
wildfires in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, and the heatwave in
the Eastern US—been caused, or worsened, by manmade
climate change? Justin Gillis of the
New York Times interviewed climatologists and
meteorologists to find out. The answer: probably. Readers of
Physics Today might remember that MIT's Kerry Emanuel
considered the impact of climate change on hurricanes in his
August 2006
Quick
Study article.
