{"id":6371,"date":"2016-03-11T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2016-03-11T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:28:06","slug":"answers-to-the-question-was-that-caused-by-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/answers-to-the-question-was-that-caused-by-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Answers to the question &#8220;Was that caused by climate change?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often get asked if this or that weather event was caused by climate change. \u00a0In many cases it is impossible to answer the question directly because it depends on a lot of factors. \u00a0Dr. Marshall Shepherd discusses this question in his latest blog post at <em>Forbes.com<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/03\/11\/wounded-warrior-project-spent-250-000-on-candy-and-even-more-on-gimmicks.html?via=newsletter&amp;source=CSAMedition\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some events are easier to attribute to changing climate than others. \u00a0Dr. Shepherd points out that in the baseball steroid era, it was impossible to attribute any single home run to steroids, and yet the number of homers went up dramatically due to extra &#8220;heat&#8221; on the ball. \u00a0It is important to remember that there will always be natural fluctuations in weather and climate because that is how the earth-atmosphere-ocean system works, but that does not mean that unnatural changes are not occurring. \u00a0Or as one of the speakers at the Florida Urban Forestry conference I am attending this week put it, &#8220;just because the tides go in and out does not mean the sea level is not rising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6372\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/graph-of-climate-change-attribution.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6372\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/graph-of-climate-change-attribution-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: National Academy of Sciences\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/graph-of-climate-change-attribution-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/graph-of-climate-change-attribution-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/graph-of-climate-change-attribution.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Academy of Sciences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often get asked if this or that weather event was caused by climate change. \u00a0In many cases it is impossible to answer the question directly because it depends on a lot of factors. \u00a0Dr. Marshall Shepherd discusses this question in his latest blog post at Forbes.com here. 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