Ah, but it's not the weather that makes the climate, or the climate that makes specific weather events, but the climate instability/disruption that makes extreme weather events (of various kinds) "more frequent, and worse."
1) We should make a habit of calling it "climate disruption", not "global warming" (but it's cold!) or "climate change" (ho-hum, and apparently preferred by Frank Luntz).
2) Say that (warming, change, disruption) "Makes extreme weather events like this more frequent, and worse." It turns out that this is true of just about every kind of extreme event, hot or cold, drought or flood. Attributing specific weather events to climate may not make sense, but we can say something definite about the pattern.
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Ah, but it's not the weather that makes the climate, or the climate that makes specific weather events, but the climate instability/disruption that makes extreme weather events (of various kinds) "more frequent, and worse."
Both theoretical predictions and observations support this expectation. See, for example, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/30/1205276109.abstract
"Could be global warming"? This is too weak.
1) We should make a habit of calling it "climate disruption", not "global warming" (but it's cold!) or "climate change" (ho-hum, and apparently preferred by Frank Luntz).
2) Say that (warming, change, disruption) "Makes extreme weather events like this more frequent, and worse." It turns out that this is true of just about every kind of extreme event, hot or cold, drought or flood. Attributing specific weather events to climate may not make sense, but we can say something definite about the pattern.