David Whitehouse: Extreme Views About Extreme Events: Journal Nature is ‘contradicting IPCC; it says the science is too immature to attribute individual events to climate change’
'In essence Nature Editorial says the standard of proof accepted by some scientists would not be good enough for the courts...Nature says attribution is in its infancy. How does that square with recent comments by Nasa's James Hansen, 'We are certainly seeing climate change in action." -- Connie Hedegaard, EU Climate Commissioner says 'We are now confident about linking individual events to climate change' -- Perhaps she should read the Nature editorial.