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Weather forecast for 2011: Unpredictable

Scientists decline to definitively attribute ongoing drought and severe storms to climate change.

Stormy night sky
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Another year of drought, severe storms with 100 kilometer-anhour winds and pouring rain, massive forest fires, unending summers of over 40º temperatures that seemingly continue right through fall. All those are familiar weather events from the past year.

The Israel Meteorological Service (IMS) can and will tally the data and provide summaries of the year that has been. There’s an overarching question that should be posed, however. How much of the weather is being influenced by climate change?

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