Scientific American wrote NOAA Makes It Official: 2011 Among Most Extreme Weather Years in History "Just shy of the halfway mark, 2011 has seen eight $1-billion-plus disasters, with total damages from wild weather at more than $32 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Agency officials said that total could grow significantly, since they expect this year's North Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1, will be an active one."
They attribute some of the events to climate change, but others, like tornadoes, they don't have evidence of a link.
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