I love when they try and trot this stuff out to show They Are Important! and then leave themselves a lot of wiggle room
How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?
For many years, scientists could answer that question only in general terms. They knew that human-caused climate change was increasing the frequency or intensity of some kinds of extreme weather, but determining its influence on a particular event was much more difficult.
Today, researchers can provide a scientifically grounded answer that assesses whether climate change made a heat wave hotter, increased rainfall from a hurricane, or made a drought more severe. But the answers are not always straightforward, and they are not equally certain for every type of extreme event.
Wiggle room. But, can they prove it is mostly/solely the fault of Mankind? No, but, that doesn’t matter, because the news media and politicians won’t make them prove it. And thanks to their doomsaying we get things like this, which have become all the rage
Heat Waves Show Climate Change Is Here
A few weeks ago, my daughter and I went to Paris, France, to visit family and celebrate her high school graduation. As a marine scientist working on the front lines of climate and oceans, I was hoping for a break from the doom and gloom. Instead, I found myself inside the biggest climate story of the year.
We knew it would be hot, over 90 degrees Fahrenheit. When I checked the forecast before we left, I told my daughter to pack shorts and tank tops. But we were not prepared for what followed—a ten-day inferno.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there are credible reports that fantastic wines were being grown in England. What about all those heat waves which last for almost a decade during the 30s? Were they from ‘climate change’?
Wildfire smoke means climate change is knocking. Will we answer? | Editorial
While wildfires from 1,000 miles away dropped a haze over Ohio, there’s one thing they’ve made clear: Climate change is knocking on our doors now.
We’ve spent far too long debating whether humans have contributed to a warming climate or not. What matters now is how we adapt and prepare ourselves.
Wildfires and the health risks they bring are not a one-off occurrence, nor will they be going away anytime soon.
No, they won’t go away, because wildfires have always happened. There’s not witchcraft involved. But, the big thing now for the media is to say “It’s here! DOOM!”
The British Foreign Office classified Washington, DC, as a “sub-tropical” posting for His Majesty’s diplomats, back in the early 19th century, before the industrial revolution. It seems as though the District of Columbia was too hot for our British forebears even then.
We are not a northern European country. Paris is at roughly the same latitude as our long, straight northern border with Canada! Berlin and London are at latitudes similar to Newfoundland. When my darling bride started her six weeks in Berlin, in mid-June, she was constantly regretting bringing only a summer wardrobe, as the first days of summer there saw highs in the low to mid-sixties.
How many of our
global warmingclimate change experts live in New York or New England or along our Pacific coast, where temperatures are naturally milder in the summer, and are shocked, shocked! that hundred degree temperatures are normal in the middle of summer in Texas and Oklahoma and Arizona?I took a screenshot of the Weather Channel a few of nights ago, June 22nd, to show that even they refer to it as the Gulf of America, while they were reporting on Tropical Storm Bertha. We are eight weeks into Atlantic hurricane season, and we had only the second named storm of the season.