Texas fires push climate change hot buttons
“By now, most people get that you can’t attribute any single weather event on global warming,” said John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas state climatologist and a professor at Texas A&M University.
Short-term weather, even over months, is too variable to show a trend. Track weather decades, however, and trends emerge, but not always the ones people expect.
“But some things are clear: Temperatures have been going up, and models all agree that the temperature rise will continue unless we get some massive volcanic eruptions or the sun suddenly becomes much dimmer,” he said.
Temperatures aren’t going up in Texas.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/tx.html
Precipitation isn’t going down in Texas
Temperatures aren’t going up globally.
Temps aren’t going up in Texas, they’re not going up in the U.S. and they’re not globally. As opposed to models, most measures of reality agree.
http://climvis.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/cag3/hr-display3.pl
It’s not so bad that temperatures have gone up. At least we don’t have a mile thick ice sheet down to Chicago or NYC like we did 15,000 ago.