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Are there any record-setting weather patterns that global climate change can't account for?

• lovich 7y ago
  Its changing the climate so no, there is probably no record setting weather it cant account for. Even if this was less water it would be listed as the driest 12 months on record.
  • mirimir 7y ago
    In the weather/climate realm, effects of increasing CO2, CH4, etc arguably dominate. Next important, I think, are changes in land use. Such as heat island effects of cities. Or deforestation reducing local to regional rainfall. So yeah. In areas that are getting warmer, such as the Arctic, new records will be about high temperatures and less sea ice cover. In areas that are getting drier, it'll be about drought. And in areas that are getting wetter, it'll be about flooding.
• throwaway934898 7y ago
  No, any layman can easily construct a reasonable sounding explanation tying any of these odd patterns to climate change. It doesn’t matter whether or not they are actually caused by climate change. It’s a level of annoying to me similar to when my dad uses a cold winter as evidence that there is no warming going on.
  • sdinsn 7y ago
    Except increased rainfall is actually linked by scientists to global warming.
    • tomatotomato37 7y ago
      Are they using the same models that also predict colder winters, hotter summers, and more droughts? I feel like everyones making different assumptions when building their climate models, so you end up with a model that show more intense A & B but not C, and than another model showing more intense A & C but no change in B, and a third mentions only a change in B and something about D, but by the time it makes it to the general populace the only thing anyone sees is that climate change is causing A, B, C, D, E, and F. Not to their fault, but with complex models like climate, a small change can butterfly wildly.
• olliej 7y ago
  The problem with this is that it’s trying to imply that these changes happen, and mere happenstance says climate change explains them. Rather than saying: climate change predicts increased extremes of all weather patterns, increased average global temperature, and increased melting of the polar ice caps. These predictions can be made robustly using fairly basic assumptions. So yeah, we can say that we will keep getting these records, and they will occur more frequently, because of human driven climate change.
• tasty_freeze 7y ago
  Yes. Weather variance is higher, but the fact is that record highs far outnumber record lows. If record lows were in greater supply it would help falsify the theory that the global average temperature is going up.