How many weather-related events equal clilmate change

It's not how many, it's that each event has been predicted by the models. It means that the models deserve more credit than they've been given and the predictions should be paid attention to for future planning.
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/news/l ... edictions/
The weather-related cataclysms of July and August fit patterns predicted by climate scientists, the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization says — although those scientists always shy from tying individual disasters directly to global warming.

Meteorologists say 17 nations have recorded all-time-high temperatures in 2010, more than in any other year.

Salvano Briceno of the U.N.’s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction pointed to aggravating factors in the latest climate catastrophes: China’s failure to stem deforestation, contributing to its deadly mudslides; Russia’s poor forest management, feeding fires; and the settling of poor Pakistanis on flood plains and dry riverbeds in the densely populated country, squatters’ turf that suddenly turned into torrents.

“The IPCC has already identified the influence of climate change in these disasters. That’s clear,” Briceno said. “But the main trend we need to look at is increasing vulnerability, the fact we have more people living in the wrong places, doing the wrong things.”

Daisypusher wrote: Or it is summer in Greenland and glaciers calf.

Snow in Brazil, below zero Celsius in the River Plate and tropical fish frozen

For a second day running it snowed Wednesday in Southern Brazil and in twelve of Argentina’s 24 provinces including parts of Buenos Aires as a consequence of the polar front covering most of the continent’s southern cone with zero and below zero temperatures.

http://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/05/sno ... ish-frozen

No weather crisis should be excluded. If we are "changing", articles about change should include global-warming, I mean climate-change related cold weather... Now this panics me..... Tropical fish freezing seems more unusual than glaciers producing icebergs. There may be no more tropical fish if this trend continues.

I wonder if there are any official climate change thermometers in the areas affected by this cold weather and if so, if a reading will be taken during this time frame and what weight factor or statistical transformation will be applied. IMWTK.

This fits too - more extreme weather events going in the opposite direction of cold temps too.
http://ipccinfo.com/extreme.php
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report
Issued November 17th
Key Passages:

"Advances since the TAR [Third Assessment Report] show that discernible human influences extend beyond average temperature to other aspects of climate.

"Human influences have:

* very likely contributed to sea level rise during the latter half of the 20th century
* likely contributed to changes in wind patterns, affecting extra-tropical storm tracks and temperature patterns
* likely increased temperatures of extreme hot nights, cold nights and cold days
* more likely than not increased risk of heat waves, area affected by drought since the 1970s and frequency of heavy precipitation events."

This story happened about the same time last year:
http://www.peruviantimes.com/climate-ch ... ear/133673
Climate change: intense cold front has killed 20,000 alpaca in Puno so far this year
August 13, 2009 by anniether