Extreme Weather: ‘Soon-to-be-published peer-reviewed papers find recent extreme weather events are blamed on natural climate variability — Not AGW
'Greenhouse gas forcing fails to explain 2010 heat wave over W. Russia...Paper to appear in Geophysical Research Letters, helps untangle causes of the unusual atmospheric circulation patterns that gave rise to harsh winter of 2009-2010 on both sides of Atlantic. They find: 'neither SST [sea surface temperature] nor sea ice anomalies explain the negative phase of the NAO [North Atlantic Oscillation] during the 2009/10 winter.'
