Extreme weather events are becoming commonplace, from ‘superstorms’ to derechos to clusters of monster tornadoes. And invariably reporters try to pin climate scientists down on the question ‘is it climate change?’, and almost equally invariably, climate scientists appear to waffle, with words like ‘climate change makes extreme weather more likely’ and ‘the probability of storms/floods/tornadoes … Continue reading →

Recently I was in Scotland and it was raining.  This is nothing new.  But as forecaster pointed out that the storm had come from the States I realized that I was sitting through the same storm I’d been through just a few days before in Virginia. Now *that* is a small world.  A small, interconnected, … Continue reading →