[In the interest of full disclosure I was considering a job with Diffenbaugh last year.]
Why would I agree, I find it very difficult to link extreme weather with global warming, why because we do not have any global warming, the temperatures of the last 50 yrs (when we have had increased CO2) are not significantly different from other time periods.
I am sure there should be a link between temperatures and weather, but I cannot see it, some of the most extreme weather events were recorded during the little ice age, why that should be I have no idea.
No, the alarmists like to spread scare stories about extreme weather events caused by global warming, despite evidence to the contrary. IPCC SREX report also established that there was no evidence for these claims, but the scarers are called alarmists for a reason.
"The media are often focused on whether global warming caused a particular event,"
might be key.
I doubt you can find a single instance of one of the 'warmers' here saying that global warming caused a specific event.
We do say that warming makes something more likely, but none of us are delusional enough to say, or think, that global warming must be responsible for a weather event.
It seems to me Diffenbaugh is just trolling for funds. He admits we don't have enough information which I agree with but beyond that I am skeptical of his intentions.
All I got from the link was the difference between a 100yrs compared to 10,000,yrs Its dippy to say the least.
not with selective quotes.
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-global-extreme-weather.html
Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences :
" ... because high-quality weather records go back only about 100 years, most scientists have been reluctant to say if global warming affected particular extreme events. ... "
" ... 'Is the probability of a particular event statistically different now compared with a climate without human influence?'" ... "
" ... "Understanding whether the probability of those high-impact events has changed can help us to plan for future extreme events, and to value the costs and benefits of avoiding future global warming." ... "
