The attribution issue mentioned in these articles brought to mind another Nature article, 'Overstretching attribution' by Parmesan et al., that a colleague forwarded to me yesterday:
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1056.html Interesting switch of the IPCCs WG2 focus from detection of climate change to attribution and why this may not be a good thing John Withey University of Washington Seattle, WA Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:42:14 -0400 From: David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu> Subject: More on anthropogenic effects on climate change http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/470344a.html reports on human influence on rainfall in a News & Views article, with two papers on the topic in that same issue of Nature. Two older papers: Karoly, D. J., K. Braganza, P. A. Stott, J. M. Arblaster, G. A. Meehl, A. J. Broccoli, and K. W. Dixon. 2003. Detection of a human influence on North American climate. Science 302:1200-1203. Rosenzweig, C., D. Karoly, M. Vicarelli, P. Neofotis, Q. Wu, G. Casassa, A. Menzel, T. L. Root, N. Estrella, B. Seguin, P. Tryjanowski, C. Liu, S. Rawlins, and A. Imeson. 2008. Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change. Nature 453:353-357.
