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13. To formally attribute change or occurrence of particular events to a cause, a statistically sound number of events must normally be considered. By nature, extreme events are rare at a given location. Events that occur over a large geographical region, such as the LAC, cannot simply be lumped together for study because the causal chains leading to them most likely differ from event to event and from location to location. That precludes a simple statistical treatment of the data. Therefore, the recent IPCC reports have very little to say about recent changes at a regional level, and even less about the national or provincial level, and their possible links with global climate change and variability.
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