Manmade climate change is highly likely to be causing the freak weather

Freakish weather disasters — from the catastrophic drought in Texas to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often and there's a more than 2/3 chance that they are the result of manmade climate change. Those are the conclusions of a draft summary of a new report by the world's top climate scientists, the International Panel on Climate Change.

The IPPC report comes hot on the heels of the news that in 2010 global carbon emissions reached their highest level ever. The IPPC warns that, as carbon emissions warm up the planet, climate change is likely to spawn more similar weather extremes at a huge cost.

Read more about the IPCC report on wild weather and climate change here.