But these fools keep the lies going
New reports have found evidence for the first time that some extreme weather can be attributed to man-made global warming.
Climate experts have long maintained that no single weather event, like a drought, heat wave or storm, could be linked to climate change.
But a growing number now say their thinking has changed, thanks to better computer models.
A special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society released on Sept. 29 looks at 22 studies on 2013 climate extremes.
While scientists say they could not find a global warming link to events like an early South Dakota blizzard, freak storms in Germany and a cold British spring, other weather extremes had clear fingerprints of climate change.
By running multiple global climate models, five independent studies found that decades of burning of fossil fuels have made heat waves like those that baked eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand in 2013 far more likely.
A Stanford University study found greenhouse gas emissions now make rain-blocking ridges of high pressure three times more likely to bring drought to California.