Heat Waves, Droughts and Heavy Rain Have Clear Links to Climate Change, Says National Academies

• Article in the Scientific American 

• By Gayathri Vaidyanathan, ClimateWire on March 14, 2016

• Scientists can now say with confidence whether heat waves, such as the one that struck Russia in 2010 and caused 55,000 deaths, are linked to climate change. But when it comes to storms like Typhoon Haiyan, which battered the Philippines last year, their methods hit a brick wall of uncertainty.