Most researchers are extremely reluctant to attribute any single weather event to global warming.

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The President made clear yesterday that we can't attribute any one single weather event to climate change.

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In any event, I certainly hope nobody tries to attribute it to climate change because that debate into the discussion would virtually guarantee paralysis.

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