Climate experts agree: Global warming caused unprecedented Russian heat wave

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Climate experts agree: Global warming caused unprecedented Russian heat wave
Carver: "Without contributions from anthropogenic climate change, I don’t think this event would have reached such extremes or even happened at all."
August 14, 2010

The World Meteorological Organization says this “unprecedented sequence of extreme weather events … matches IPCC projections of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to global warming.” NASA says July 2010 is “What Global Warming Looks Like.”

Top climate scientists — Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring and attribution at UK’s Met Office and Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research — have been making the link between the record-smashing extreme weather and human caused global warming (see here)

In this cross-post, Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson has more on what scientists are saying, including Meteorologist Rob Carver, the Research and Development Scientist for Weather Underground.