I’d ask if they were comparing the heat waves during this warm period with previous Holocene warm periods, but, first, that is almost impossible, and second, the climate cultists wouldn’t care, yammering on about this time being different because you won’t give up your fossil fueled vehicle, money, and freedom (it’s behind the paywall, but, you can save it to Pocket and read the whole thing)
Every heatwave occurring today is more intense due to climate change
Every heatwave today was made more likely by climate change and there is no longer a need to wait for studies to tease out global warming’s role in individual extreme heat episodes, according to the scientist who pioneered such studies.
Researchers usually caution against blaming specific extreme weather events on climate change. Heatwaves in China and Japan this week would not usually have been considered caused by climate change before “attribution studies” are run to model the difference in likelihood of the heatwaves between a world with our changed climate and one without. Such studies have come of age in the last decade, led by Friederike Otto of Imperial College London, and can now be turned around in days.
However, Otto says for heatwaves at least, we no longer need to wait before declaring climate change’s role. “I think we can very confidently now say that every heatwave that is occurring today has been made more intense, and more likely because of climate change,” she says. While changes to land use might after affect the likelihood, she adds: “There is no doubt that climate change is really an absolute game-changer when it comes to heatwaves.”
Science, schmience, just take our word for it, peons. They’ve apparently been doing “research” for decades, but, there is not control group, there is no comparison to previous warm periods. They aren’t even comparing it to the very hot 1930’s.
Most severe droughts around the world, by comparison, are not attributable to climate change, the review found. And neither are most wildfires, with a high confidence in a climate link only found in increasingly frequent fires in the western US. However, heavy rainfall events have been found to have increased in most part of the world due to climate change, and nowhere on Earth has the likelhilhood strongly decreased.
Hmm, that’s interesting. Of course, the Warmists will still blame those on anthropogenic climate change, including all the western fires that have all pretty much been set intentionally or unintentionally by humans.
