Of course it does. Despite virtually every other study saying “nope!”, and even the UN IPCC hedging its bets, the Cult of Climastrology has continued to trot out talking points about extreme weather and climate change, hence the need for a “scientific” study
Droughts, Floods and Heatwaves: Blame It on Climate Change
As temperatures soar to record heights, blame it on global warming—but only about three-quarters of the time. And when the rain comes down by the bucketful, you can attribute one downpour in five to climate change.
Yet another team of research scientists has looked at the probabilities, and has linked extremes of weather with global warming.
Well, really, climatic changes are nothing new. They’ve always happened, and warming and cooling, heck, even Pauses, can cause weather to happen a differently. Certainly, the weather was much different during the Little Ice Age than it was during the Medieval Warm Period, and the current Modern Warm Period. But, of course
Extremes have always happened and are, by definition, rare events. So, for the last 30 years, climate scientists have carefully explained that no particular climate event could be identified as the consequence of a rise in global average temperatures driven by the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels.
And that’s where it breaks down, linking the whole kit and kaboodle to fossil fuels.
If the temperatures go up to the 2°C that nations have agreed should be the limit, then the probability of precipitation extremes that could be blamed on global warming rises to 40 percent. They are less precise about heatwaves, but any rise could be sharp.
Of course, the problem here is that 95% of the computer models failed to predict the current Pause, a pause that is acknowledged by climate scientists (though, mostly not by rank and file members of the CoC). Could the temperature go up by 2°C? Yes, it could. Will it? Despite the scaremongering talking points, no one really knows. The global temperatures have only gone up 0.8°C since 1850. It’s going to have to accelerate for it to go up 1.2°C by the end of the 21st century.
Such studies are calculated to help provoke governments, states and water authorities into preparing for climate change, but it just may be that the western U.S. is already feeling the heat. California, in particular, has been in the grip of unprecedented drought, and researchers have already linked this to climate change.
Huh. So this is really about politics. Go figure.
