Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change

It may be a little dicey to try and link any single weather event to human induced global warming; climate is so complex that just hard boiling an egg could theoretically cause a tornado! But a new report issued by government climate researchers states that overall, extreme weather events including record floods, blizzards, and heat waves are consistent with and likely a product of global climate change produced by man-made greenhouse gases:

USA Today -- If you think the weather is getting more extreme, you're right — and global warming caused by human activity probably is the reason, according to a report released Thursday by a panel of government scientists.

This isn't something that's happening only in equatorial third-world nations or centuries down the road; the report and others like it conclude it's happening here and it's happening now. Cue the anti-science right-wing noise machine which hasn't gotten the Bush-McCain memo that climate change is real to go all split-personality and shriek 1) It's all a fake alarmist plot by Al Gore and 2) Climate change is the democrats' fault that can only be alleviated by more offshore drilling. Oh, and I'd have been happy to link and quote the AP article, but apparently they and their paying advertisers don't like thousands of blog directed hits.