OTTAWA — When it comes to extreme weather, 2018 has a throwdown message for last year’s show of hurricanes, forest fires and non-stop rainfall: hold my beer. Predicting when and where extreme weather will hit can be difficult, if not downright impossible. But Tim Gray, executive director of Environmental Defence Canada, said Friday he has no doubt it will happen. Madhav Khandekar, a former Environment Canada ocean researcher, has written papers arguing against the notion that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent. The more energy in the atmosphere, the more the risk is for extreme weather.

Source: National Post January 12, 2018 17:03 UTC