weather events

From the National Weather Service in Nashville:

...A warm and dry June for Nashville...

When I argue with denialists about Global Warming, they often like to point to recent weather events (usually quite local) that aren't so "warm," however meaningless such weather is to climate change. One thing I like to point out is that the land mass of the U.S.

When I argue with denialists about Global Warming, they often like to point to recent weather events (usually quite local) that aren't so "warm," however meaningless such weather is to climate change. One thing I like to point out is that the land mass of the U.S.

A headline in Christian Science Monitor caught my attention: "Global warming not always to blame for extreme winters." This implies, of course, that global warming can still sometimes be blamed for extreme winters, which is bogus. Global warming cannot logically be blamed for anything. At any rate, here's the pull quote from the story:

It snowed in Baghdad earlier this month for the first time in 100 years. It didn't snow much, but just imagine living in a big city where everyone experiences snow for the first time. Dawood Shakir, director of the Iraqi meteorology department, said that climate change might be to blame for the rare event, which also prompted Amir Delju, senior scientific coordinator of the World Meteorological Organization's climate program, to quip "Global warming has not stopped."

Of course not.