From the London Daily Mail:
Scientists to 'fast-track' evidence linking extreme weather to climate change in sign of panic that they're losing propaganda battle to the sceptics
Environmental scientists want to introduce a new system to prove that adverse weather events are directly linked to climate change to counter global warming sceptics.
Under the new plan, a heatwave or major storm will be linked scientifically to man made climate change immediately after the event to prevent critics from blaming it on natural variations in the weather.
Scientists want to be able to provide proof of whether an event was caused by climate change within three days rather than the current system which can take up to a year.
Fortunately, other voices are weighing in:
Dr Friederike Otto of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University said: 'We want to clear up the huge amounts of confusion around how climate change is influencing the weather, in both directions. For example the typhoon in the Philippines that dominated the UN climate change talks in Warsaw last November and that many people put down to climate change - it turned out it had no detectable evidence. And the same goes for Hurricane Sandy.'
Meanwhile in Chicago:
Light snow sweeps in, third earliest on record
Light snow followed a cold front into the Chicago area Saturday morning, the third earliest we've seen a trace of the stuff dating back to 1881.
A band of rain and snow started spreading across northern Illinois shortly before 7 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.
For Chicago, it's the third earliest snow on record. The earliest traces of snow dating back to 1881 are Sept. 25, 1928 and Sept. 25, 1944.
There is even evidence of another Polar Vortex forming this winter.
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