We continue our review of the latest published assessment of worldwide indicators of extreme weather, this week turning to the discussion of extreme precipitation. The authors present evidence that there...
We continue our summary of a new peer-reviewed survey of extreme weather trends with a topic that few alarmists seem to want to touch on: the greening of the planet...
Via Roger Pielke Jr. we have learned of a new comprehensive assessment of extreme weather trends published in The European Physical Journal Plus. The authors go systematically through the major...
In our examination of the latest peer-reviewed survey of extreme weather events we have repeatedly found an absence of trends, whether in droughts or hurricanes or extreme precipitation or other...
...lead to a mindless chorus about climate change. In our continuing review of the new assessment of global indicators of extreme weather we find the following regarding scientific evidence of...
Last week we drew attention to a new, detailed peer-reviewed analysis of extreme weather trends. Yes, yes, very boring, we all know there’s nothing to report. But the trouble is...
We continue our summary of a comprehensive new peer-reviewed survey of extreme weather trends, this week looking at droughts. The imagery of droughts is reliably horrifying, so whenever the media...
...describe it, the 32 researchers “address the intensity, persistence and impact of the 1540 drought using more than 300 documentary sources of weather reports, originating from Austria, Belgium, the Czech...
...about extreme weather getting worse because of your carbon dioxide emissions, did anyone mention that the weather isn’t actually getting worse at all? Wondering what else you haven’t been told?...
...the text of the new IPCC report where it pertains to the big topics of the day, especially apocalyptic extreme weather and the like. Today we start with extreme rainfall....
...meteorologists and weather scientists gathered to share the latest research at the 103rd meeting of the American Meteorological Society. …Scientists are in consensus on the increasing frequency of extreme weather...
...of the new IPCC report says about the science of attributing extreme weather events to greenhouse gases: “[New] approaches have been developed to answer the question of whether and to...
...no, nowhere at all: “In a summer already full of extreme weather, it's the heat waves roasting hundreds of millions of people across three continents that are confirming a grim...
...extreme weather event happens anywhere in the world, people immediately look at it and say… climate change. The response is automatic and unconscious. Which should be a clue about what’s...
...as January 9 the New York Times was just reporting bad storms as bad weather. But two days later it pulled itself together with: “Extreme weather has plagued many parts...
...other. Global heating is now translating into extreme weather rapidly: there has been a huge hike in these events over the last few years, during which time the global average...
...his Minister of “Environment and Climate Change” George Heyman: “We’re seeing and living the effects of climate change, whether it’s extreme weather, whether it’s droughts, whether it’s the two worst...
...have learned to live with the widest range of temperature extremes the planet has to offer, and second, that extreme cold is, overall, deadlier than extreme heat. If we are...
...extremes. That last step was key. It meant that even though both hot and cold extremes were going down, since the cold extremes were going down faster, the ratio would...
In this series we consider examples of weather and climate extremes that are supposedly getting worse and worse, and we compare such claims to data. This week we look at...
...‘render a significant portion of the Earth uninhabitable’.” Got that? It was here last year, with extreme weather destroying your house. Which in a way is not surprising since it...
...reality: The United States is not ready for the extreme weather that is now becoming frequent as a result of a warming planet.” Note how this assertion that extreme weather...
...for a throwaway line about “extreme weather becoming more frequent”. But another NBC story said “The situation is reflective of a global trend in extreme weather. ‘Between 2000 and 2016...
A reminder that you are not supposed to read this paper on extreme weather trends now that your intellectual superiors have decreed that the implications of you knowing what’s in...
...to measure the costs from extreme weather events that can be attributed to your gas stove, i.e. greenhouse gas emissions. “FAR” stands for “Fraction of Attributable Risk”, as in attributable...
...that they come along but once a century – are now extreme yet usual. … In news reports about extreme weather events it’s become de rigeur for the reporter to...
...climate change. But it is worth noting that the shortage is attributed by supermarkets to… bad weather in Spain and North Africa. Any particular kind of bad weather? When the...
...of our warming planet, we are going to see more radical and frequent shifts in extreme weather – extreme heat to extreme rain.’” What facts might this reporter have unearthed...
...so stark. Only the most extreme heat is associated with higher mortality, even in a hot country like Mexico, whereas even mild cold spells are deadly and extreme cold (below...
...scare campaign comes at a cost in terms of scientific integrity: “Every extreme weather event is now attributed to global warming, even extreme cold outbreaks and heavy snow. Scientists who...
...climate models, that global warming is causing more extreme weather. And guess what? Using long term weather data from the British Met Office the GWPF paper finds that “although the...
...the changing climate and the frequency and severity of extreme weather events.” As for settled science, NBC announced that “With global warming making heat waves and other extreme weather events...
...weather blog that the heat would give way to dramatic cooling on Monday June 28. If so, what will alarmists say? Why, that “extreme weather” is the real meaning of...
...energy from fossil fuels was key to reducing the death toll from extreme weather. Better still would be if he acknowledged that most forms of extreme weather haven’t gotten worse...
...and extreme weather events to global warming and climate change. More recently, by putting these events into context with the past, researchers have revealed clearer connections. This has allowed us...
...and Climate Change Canada blared, “Canada’s Top Ten Weather Stories of 2019 clearly show, once again, that more and more Canadians are being impacted by extreme weather, from devastating wildfires...
...the extreme weather our fossil fuel use has unleashed. Thus NBC mixes up present and future with “Chinese farmers hit by floods and drought say extreme weather is getting worse/...
We’ve been seeing record-breaking temperatures across the western and central U.S. along with wild weather extremes. More proof of the climate crisis? Not exactly, since it was record cold and...
...“birthstrike” at least for now. And CNN says people struggling to survive extreme weather “are vulnerable to the influence of extremist recruits”. Calling to mind a study last fall saying...
...it, Bill McKibben rants about “the increasingly extreme weather that will be driven by climate breakdown.” Driven by it, please note. Not described by it. But increasingly extreme weather isn’t...
...by doubts. “In the burgeoning field of event attribution, this is one of the clearest results yet. Japan has robust historic weather data, unlike most poorer countries vulnerable to weather...
...to public health, extreme violence, extreme division, extreme weather.” Temperature in Los Angeles on July 29? Glad you asked. High of 29, low of 18. Typical for this time of...
...by this story that he wrote a response that zeroes in on this key point. The BC “heat dome”, he rightly notes, was weather. Yes, it was extreme weather. But...
...that cold weather is much more deadly and a concern than warm weather is evidenced in Figure 1b. There, we have plotted the proportion of deaths attributed to extreme cold...
...matters worse, Libyans are especially vulnerable. ‘Libya is ill-prepared to handle the effects of climate change and extreme weather,’ said Malak Altaeb, an environmental expert.” What has climate change to...
...the people in southeast Africa. The absence of increasing trends in extreme weather is no secret. For instance, in their special report on extreme weather a few years ago, the...
...running fevers over the past couple of months, with consequences for weather systems around the globe.” So evidently they’re saying the weather is now markedly different from, and, we assume,...
...others in Germany, had been culpably slow in the fight against an actual instance of extreme weather. The claim that being “faster” in the fight against climate change could have...
...above normal”. Except the numbers, on inspection, come from weather models, not thermometers, which right away tells us that the AP is being, well, just what you’d expect. As Anthony...
...extreme is peddling fake news.” The source for this too-hot-to-handle item is the 2013 IPCC Report on Managing Risks Associated with Extreme Weather, Chapter 3 Page 124: One approach for...
...or AR5. The AR5 also surveyed evidence on extreme weather and its conclusions regarding extreme precipitation echoed the SREX: In summary, further analyses continue to support the AR4 and SREX...
...to exonerate Merkel and her colleagues, insisting that “‘No One Is Safe’: Extreme Weather Batters the Wealthy World/ Floods swept Germany, fires ravaged the American West and another heat wave...
A professor of panic, sorry, English, says the plan to frighten people by mentioning climate change in every story about extreme weather has mysteriously backfired. He has a new plan:...
...matters which ideology they hold. For instance, Kenneth Richards reports on NoTricksZone, while extreme weather events are actually becoming less frequent in the case of rainfall and hurricanes, or holding...
...BBC Lies About Extreme Weather”. And backs it up by citing the IPCC’s own AR6 to refute the one about extreme rainfall. But there is reason to think that the...
...that people find this assertion puzzling “when we are constantly told that extreme weather is wreaking ever-greater devastation.” But in fact, “Since 1990, the cost associated with extreme weather worldwide...
...preparation for extreme weather in the province has been just as shocking. Ed Fast, the MP for Abbotsford, one of the worst affected cities, said all levels of government have...
One of the main building blocks of extreme weather is so-called “Atmospheric Blocking”. When a block forms, the weather gets stalled and builds in intensity, whether it’s heat, cold, drought...
...extreme temperatures can bring.” The last point, of course, isn’t a prediction. And it’s wrong. The world has seen a precipitous drop in deaths from extreme weather in the last...
...extreme weather at mountainous ultramarathon in China” you’re a bit surprised to hear that, as the story it linked to said, it wasn’t heat that did them in but cold....
...Environment and Climate Change Canada who uses climate models to figure out whether certain extreme weather events can be linked to climate change.” And: “‘In general, cold extremes are becoming...
...those estimates to the observed deaths and looked at how the deviations correlated with the weather. Sure enough, hot weather was found to be deadly, killing an estimated 791 people...
...gas infrastructure.” Why’s it bad? “The one certainty in the era of climate change is that we are in an age of extreme weather.” And if they got that wrong,...
...had to close as white stuff fell from sky. And what the heck the Weather Network was thinking telling us “Canada’s first -40 reading a harbinger of a frigid week...
...extreme climate events require extreme forcings? Geophysical Research Letters 40: 3440-3445. What was done In further exploring this subject, Kumar et al. addressed it within the context of the severe...
...groups cause in comparison to the extreme disruption already produced and threatened by climate breakdown, such as extreme droughts, wildfires and tropical storms.” No, no and no. The disruptions are...
...“Regardless of whether a specific extreme weather event is linked to anthropogenic climate change, the common denominator is human suffering. In the era of extreme weather, it’s crucial to know...
No extreme weather event would be complete without Michael Mann doing a victory dance. And sure enough, “That Heat Dome? Yeah, It’s Climate Change.” Coauthored with a climate scientist holding...
It is an article of faith among many untutored alarmists that “the warming we are now witnessing” is already causing a massive increase in extreme weather. Meanwhile many scientists, including...
...that same year, Epstein also says, the American Meteorological Society announced that this cooling would increase extreme weather. Got that? Today the experts say warming will increase extreme weather, and...
...increasing frequency and strength of extreme weather events or the expanding range and spread of vector-borne diseases like malaria or dengue. For others, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the connection...
Perhaps that’s the nerd’s credo. But we have nowhere to hide. We’re excited at a NOAA website that lists all sorts of extreme weather records in the United States, NOAA...
...reality. We have seen the heightened effects of climate change across the planet through extreme weather, crop failure and the burning of forests… A healthy population requires a healthy planet,...
...Nordic countries.” Yes, even in advanced economies a combination of bad weather and bad policy can create potentially lethal circumstances, in this case with the weather dipping as low as...
...you got it right. But you were just guessing, right? Either that or you’d seen the quiz in our newsletter a year ago. But what about all that extreme weather...
...severe weather season is about to begin. Of course, with any type of extreme [sic] weather that occurs, someone with zero credibility will attempt to link it to man-made climate...
...now is the test, and its results are necessarily hugely ambiguous. Some people think not. They say the huge increases in extreme weather prove that we’ve busted the planet. Which...
...and stepping up to help get the devastating wildfires under control. With thousands displaced from their homes and incalculable damages, Canadians are on the front lines of extreme weather events...
...declares that: “The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is...
...and mass starvation of reindeer and caribou in the region. Scientists think the rapid heating in the Arctic may also be increasing extreme weather events such as floods and heatwaves...
...Unmoored/ The weather of catastrophe is here” soon went on to detail how “unmoored” California’s weather has always been, from Joan Didion’s 1968 “Los Angeles weather is the weather of...
...That Weird”. See, cold is just weather. In Hawaii, we didn’t even get talk of “atmospheric rivers”. Instead NBC, in a climate-free piece, explained that “The weather system responsible for...
...from lack of moisture, not from too much. Or both because the problem is “extreme weather” and anything will do. OK, we’ll go to the same source and check for...
...extreme events... [including] compound flooding in some locations.” Then in the Working Group 2 report they threw caution even further into the swollen river and said “Extreme weather events causing...
...“We mapped a year of extreme weather” during which “Temperatures in the United States last year set more heat and cold records than any other year since 1994”. Wait, cold?...
...is also to blame for more extreme weather events, like the lengthy drought that devastated the Horn of Africa, the torrential downpours that wiped out dams and killed thousands in...
...in the Lancet that “describes how extreme weather has increased pressure on health services globally already grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic…. But it said there are solutions. ‘Despite the challenges,...
...extreme weather already hit and is also about to. In their Times Op-Ed, Thunberg and the grown children snarl that “Last week, some of the world’s leading climate change scientists...
...phenomenon that influences weather patterns around the world. After an unusually long period of La Niña, one of ENSO’s two extreme phases, the Earth returned to its neutral phase at...
...before human relevance. Extreme weather events were odd, but nothing to worry about and certainly no reason to change anything.” Cann retorts: “He was unaware that the Great Barrier Reef...
...leave permanent impacts on the land… With climate change, he said, we’re only going to see more of this kind of extreme weather.” Except all the places where we see...
Oh no. “El Niño is forecast to return in 2023. Here’s what it means for extreme weather and global warming” says Euronews.green. And the short answer should be “nothing” since...
...extreme weather. The melting glaciers. The weirdly warm oceans. They’re all the product of global warming, which is being driven by the release of the three most important heat-trapping gases:...
...Goldstein wrote: “a Leger poll released this week found that while 72% of Canadians are worried about climate change, 74% believe that extreme weather events are linked to it and...
...Environment and Climate Change Canada (and with a name like that you can’t really back down, can you?) declares that extreme weather driven by climate change pounded relentlessly on our...
...the mid-1870s related to extreme weather and climate – That equates to about 4% of global population. Today, that same proportion of the world’s population would be over 320 million...
...come as historic wildfires and extreme weather events in the U.S. have sharpened focus on global warming and the catastrophic impacts of climate change.” To stick with just one standard...
...NBC news where we learn that the US National Weather Service is claiming extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather-related factor, including floods, cold, tornadoes, wind, winter and...
...weather. For instance one of them, “Theodore DeJong, a fruit-tree physiologist at UC Davis”: “told me his main worry now is rain. His state has been pummeled with extreme precipitation...
...mortality attributable due to cold weather is nine times greater than that due to warm weather... Paper Reviewed by CO2Science: Zhang, Y., Wang, S., Zhang, X., Hu, Q. and Zheng,...
...For instance that the cause is… climate change. “The full effect of lingering pandemic-related food supply chain disruptions, high inflation, labour and transportation issues, climate change and extreme weather events...
...between climate change and some extreme weather phenomena can be hard to distinguish from natural weather variability without extensive attribution analysis, but the links between wildfires and a warming planet,...
...coast.” Under threat? What does that even mean? Well, there could be weather, you see. Or rather, there is weather, since with climate alarmism the doom that looms is also...
...find all kinds of stories of extreme weather as far back as there were newspapers. Oddly, in Britain it has also been raining. No really. The famously damp chilly island...
...their heads. And to global warming, which became “global heating”. And then “extreme heat” even if the temperature doesn’t go up: “1bn people will suffer extreme heat at just 2C...
...at National Geographic they explain “Why cold weather doesn’t mean climate change is fake” and, patting our cute but empty heads, inform us that “Weather and climate aren't the same...
The New York Times warns of bad American Thanksgiving travel weather and shows a picture of Colorado under more than two feet of snow. But what has it to do...
...says: “Climate is the general weather over a long period. This can include rainfall, temperature, snow or any other weather condition. We usually define a region’s climate over a period...
...range forecasting. There are patterns in world weather systems that together give each year a unique character. By comparing springtime conditions to detailed data on past weather events they determine...
From CO2Science: As almost everyone knows, nearly every aspect of weather imaginable is predicted by climate models to become worse in response to atmospheric CO2 enrichment; and, therefore, CO2Science reports...
...climate alarmists continue to claim that global warming leads to more extremes (highs and lows) of all types of weather-related phenomena (such as floods and droughts, for example), this study...
...Nations has issued its predictions for 2024… ‘The unfolding climate crisis and extreme weather events will undermine agricultural output and tourism, while geopolitical instability will continue to adversely impact several...
...about trends in extreme weather: “Climatic extreme events such as cyclones and storm surges, flood, river erosion and salinity stress have been severely affecting agriculture, fishing or fish cultivation and...
...current rate of warming continues. These temperature increases are significant. As a result of the current warming of 1.0°C, the world is already experiencing more extreme weather, rising sea levels...
...John Shewchuk commented, “Funny how climate alarmists claim everything they see is extreme weather, while the vast majority of the rest of the planet is experiencing extreme climatic grandeur.” But...
...like much, but it’s the primary driver of more extreme weather and a cascade of other dangerous effects from climate change. Under the current status quo, greenhouse gas emissions from...
...demonstrate that they exist. Corcoran quotes part of Layton’s motion, that “Extreme weather is already causing massive damage to Toronto-area infrastructure, homes, services and businesses. According to the Insurance Bureau...
...they find extremely cold weather easier to handle than extreme heat.” Well yes. They live in Northern Canada. They haven’t seen extreme heat in their lives unless they went on...
...some rightwing British media gave it their best shot.” And included the Daily Mail in that category for some reason. NBC swooned “Heat waves overlap as warming climate makes extreme...
...what the real state even of the IPCC’s science is on warming, extreme weather and so on, let alone less zealous outfits and individuals. But partly it’s economic. They do...
...warming since 1950 is probably man-made, but before 1950 it may have been mostly natural. It says there’s no clear connection between greenhouse gases and most forms of extreme weather...
...consequences of exceeding that threshold includes mass species extinctions, water shortages and extreme weather events that will be most devastating to the poorest countries least responsible for causing global warming.”...
...heat: The U.S. is getting hit by extreme weather from all sides/ Climate scientists say it’s an all-too-real look at how global warming increases the risks – and consequences –...
...so they don’t seem very clear on whether there has been any net natural warming at all since the Crimean War.) Despite even the IPCC’s caution about extreme weather, NBC...
...the disaster has both struck already and looms in the future: “A recently published UN report noted that mental health cases are resulting from extreme weather and rising temperatures. It...
...extreme weather has become such an essential component of the scare campaign that it shows up constantly when it’s hot. Let a scorching wind from the Sahara hit Europe and...
...Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of Waterloo where “His research focuses on innovative strategies designed to reduce the economic impacts of extreme weather and climate change.” On the...
...Letters 45: 4485-4493. As background, see the many reviews CO2Science has published on the topic of climate change and extreme weather under the subheadings links for Weather Extremes in the...
...feeling the pain. As the fossil fuel industry roasts the planet, more extreme weather records are being broken.” If the fossil fuel industry was trying to roast the planet they...
The eyes of alarmist media are on Texas right now because it is having, of all things, hot weather in mid-summer. Which is apparently due to “global” warming although for...
...have data back to the late 1800s, official Canada-wide weather records only begin in 1948. The world’s atmosphere now has complete coverage from weather satellites, but that record only starts...
...high. The air and water is cleaner, especially in wealthy countries. And the number of people dying from extreme weather events is down by over 90 percent since 1900 even...
...may have other, vastly unequal effects — drought in lands of plenty, perhaps, or fierce storms in areas that are normally untouched by extreme weather. That could lead to political...
...faded to almost nothing. Using Oxford University's Our World in Data website we plotted the total annual deaths from floods, extreme weather, heatwaves, drought and wildfires. The numbers tell the...
...with extreme weather ravaging continents, if it goes up by another 0.4° we’re in even worse trouble and if it’s another 0.9° children won’t know what civilization is, or possibly...
California’s weather woes continue. Which is not surprising if you know that the Golden State has had extreme weather as far back as anyone can tell and then some. Despite...
...goes all in on extreme weather, riding cyclone Idai in Mozambique. But the reason so many people died in Mozambique is that it’s a poor country, not that it got...
...climate change. It’s just some weather. We all know the jibes about predicting the weather. (Though it is surely fair to ask with Daniel Turner of the Daily Caller if...
...the story. Just as “Cold blast to bring record-breaking temperatures to large part of U.S. this week” is merely weather whereas “Summer heatwaves ‘killed record number of pensioners’” is definitely...
...The state of Victoria, Australia just posted its coldest-ever November temperature while “Western Australia braces for unseasonal cold spring weather as front moves across state.” More weird weather for sure....
...isn’t the alleged trend in extreme weather. It’s the alleged trend of rising temperature. And in fact there isn’t one. As Paul Homewood reminds us, courtesy of the University of...
...record…. 2024 may be even hotter than the ‘gobsmackingly’ hot 2023, which featured extreme – and often deadly – weather and climate events around the globe.” We don’t want to...
...specific weather events to climate change instead of just going well, sometimes we just get bad weather. Thus: “As firefighters and other first responders battle an unprecedented summer of fires,...
...week of weather to describe climate change is problematic and may reveal a lack of understanding of weather and climate.” Glad to hear it. So if we stop pointing to...
...is it brings bad weather. But Fagan’s research paints a very different picture, namely that warming brought good weather and cooling was the problem. Narrator “The generally stable weather of...
...1888, 2001, 1959, 1903, 1991 and 1912. It’s just weather. As with The Weather Network’s May 16 headline “It never ends: Snowfall forecast for these six provinces this week”. They...
...possible that Australia would get its first mainland white Christmas since 2006. It was however just weather, obviously: “Short bursts of cold weather are far from unprecedented in early summer...
...where things like increased urban flooding have occurred, it’s doubtful greenhouse gases are the cause since extreme precipitation rates haven’t changed. Nor has extreme weather generally gotten worse. So where’s...
...heat content, ocean acidity, sea level, area burned in the United States, and extreme weather and associated damage costs have all been trending upward”. These statements, alas, belong in the...
...for posting claims of increases in extreme weather cribbed from environmental activists and said their hearing on the subject “spreads lies”. At the Climate Discussion Nexus we are far more...
...by emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, melting ice will raise sea levels and extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent and intensify, battering vulnerable coastlines around the world”.)...
Alarmists like to claim that extreme weather is getting worse and worse. They drop the claim casually and repeatedly but never offer, um, any data to back it up. We’re...
...any quick check whether they’re remotely plausible. No one fact checks off-hand lines like “an unprecedented surge of extreme weather as wildfires devastated the American West, hurricanes lashed tropical coastlines...
...mitigated the short growing seasons and foul weather of the Little Ice Age and saw an inexplicable burst of material human flourishing including dramatic drops in extreme hunger even as...
...— are on course to hit taxpayers and the housing market as the effects of climate change worsen, a POLITICO analysis finds”. The problem here is that extreme weather is...
...threat to communities and watersheds throughout the province, according to a new report released today. The increase in extreme weather events brought on by climate change intensifies this threat: severe...
...the sea and extreme weather events”. He quotes Nobel prize winner and theoretical physicist Richard Feynman that “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart...
One reason scary words aren’t leading to effective action is that many of them are obviously wrong. The apocalyptarians talk a great deal about extreme weather and disasters. But the...
All together now: climate change is causing damage from extreme weather to get worse and worse. And don’t say you weren’t warned. As Roger Pielke Jr. notes, the Fourth US...
From CO2Science.org: One of the tenets of climate alarmism is the belief that CO2-induced global warming will increase both the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events, including tropical cyclones...
With everyone suddenly an expert on extreme weather, an actual scientist threatens to spoil the fun. Dr. Judith Curry, former chair of Earth Sciences at Georgia Tech, spent much of...
...record number of extreme weather events such as floods, heatwaves and forest fires this year.” Since we didn’t have a record number of extreme weather events, is it possible everything...
...the links between extreme weather events and climate change, but every cold snap gets trumpeted by those who deny the scientific evidence for global warming.” Regrettably “people may become inured...
...that Irish emissions affect the weather in the Emerald Isle, and Chinese emissions the weather in the Middle Kingdom, these people are clods. Switzerland could go back to burning nothing...
...been a decline in extreme cold waves (and windstorms) the overall picture is that weather has become less extreme. Also, the planet is no warmer today than it was in...
...drought that would never end and did this spring. With a wintery blast that wasn’t climate change at all, just weather, unless it was bad in which case well duh...
...to avoid non-essential travel.” So you know what’s coming. An ad for global warming. As in “The bad weather is intense.” Just weather? Yup. “The cold snap is expected to...
...of those extreme weather events, with 51% being of Native American descent, 31% Latino, 30% Asian, 29% Black and 18% white, according to the report.” But if anyone including him...
...New York City area. Global warming has produced more extreme weather patterns in much of the world, according to climate scientists.” Not including the IPCC, but why quibble? The main...
...collapsed due to bungling before. As have claims about extreme weather. The louder the yelling gets about reputable scientists versus denialisticismists or whatever we’re now being called, the less the...
...the extreme weather, pretending they already did. So bye bye marsh, polar bear, merlot and anything else you like (including tropical forests, about to go crackle whoosh). Hello cannibal wolf...
...is quite reasonable but their explanation interlaces sensible points with hyperbole about extreme weather, bad math about warming, and scare stories. The piece starts fairly well, warning that “Kerry is...
...season of long, lazy days, ice cream cones, and sand somehow getting into everything. But it’s also a season of extreme weather, from heat waves to hurricanes”. We shall see....
...quantities, 10 times as many lives will be saved from reducing cold weather risks than will be lost due to increasing hot weather extremes. CDN expresses its sincere apologies for...
...random weather: “The network’s winter outlook says a La Nina — a weather pattern characterized by cold ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean — is returning for a rare...
...fall, even committed alarmists secretly know that warmer weather is better. On Dec. 28 NBC sighed with relief that: “Warmer weather is expected to spread across much of the United...
...of cold-related deaths in Britain had “extreme cold snap” and “severe weather warnings” and the closure of Britain’s busiest highway, the M25 that circles London, as well as flight cancellations....
A friend recently wrote to suggest we launch a game to see how far into any story about bad weather you have to read before they mention climate change. And...
...Administration, a major alarmist U.S. government agency with an annual budget of over $6 billion, reports data from something like 777 U.S. weather stations that actually don’t exist any more....
...he suggested that aircraft contrails may play a role in suppressing them. It’s just a conjecture. But whatever the cause, the data show that this aspect of extreme weather is...
...by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that uses a 30 year moving average to create a “new normal”. The Times of course drags in extreme weather: “Updated every 10...
...blowing and they don’t give you context. They don’t tell you about how it felt to be in that extreme weather. I think there’s something to be said about combining...
...in France and Germany during the 2019 heatwaves.” So there’s one example. As for the rest, “Estimating the real-world response of power plants to extreme weather is difficult due to...
...to be more extreme than it otherwise would have been. After all, they reason, what else could it be? We now have an answer to that question based on a...
...so if it gets warmer extreme levels of rainfall must go up. The convenient thing about a prediction like that is that if a bad storm happens the scientists can...
...weather in the U.S. It involves cooler sea surface temperatures and strong east-to-west winds in the Pacific Ocean, and it affects weather around the globe.” Eh? Cooler sea surface temperatures?...
...them with green chrism. Likewise, in a year-end denialism-has-ended-again-due-to-extreme-weather-evidence snoozer quoting such neutral observers as Katherine Hayhoe and Naomi Oreskes, Discover magazine says “Surveys show rising alarm about climate change....
...fan in hot weather, no heater in cold weather, no refrigerator, and no cell phone. Which is not something to laugh at if you live in a county where the...
...old head and wonder if cold weather can come out of nowhere, even brutally. As we’ve observed before, the science is totally settled on climate while weather is mysterious. And...
Via NoTricksZone we learn of a new study in The Lancet that confirms what many other authors have found: Cold weather kills more people than hot weather. A lot more....
Via Watts Up With That we learn that a claim of an all-time temperature record of between 2.7 and 4.7 degrees C at Greenland’s Summit weather station, which triggered worldwide...
...National Weather Service, with temperatures some 25 degrees below normal in spots” the Post would have treated it as vindication of the Earth Day gab-fests on stopping global warming. But...
...the weather in December 2100. Speaking of weather forecasts, Paul Dorian predicts that “Winter will not loosen its grip anytime soon in the eastern US”. So we close this item...
...relationship between atmospheric CO2 and temperature delivered a cool spring and “Summer weather has been unusually slow to arrive across most of the country this year.” Now we know weather...
...good weather on another day is too. Instead, the comparison with some unseen, imagined alternative is only employed when we have bad weather and the assumption is always that the...
NBC blares that “Extreme heat in cities a growing problem as climate warms, study finds/ People flocking to cities in rapidly urbanizing areas such as southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa...
...of extreme weather are preventing us from a really bitter ecofeminist panic. “Disasters, as forms of crisis, can offer opportunities to more sharply focus on historical and ongoing inequalities,” they...
...and extremes, humidity, maximum and minimum temperature means and extremes, surface winds, jet stream’s location and strength and so on), producing negative cascading effects to ecosystems and the human communities...
...easily be far better informed than they are. So what does he say? Well, before he’s cleared the “Introduction” he’s gotten rid of the increase in extreme weather, melting Greenland...
...admit to the uncertainties, don’t invent extreme weather, and speak politely to skeptics. As Eric Worrall put it in commenting on Crawley’s piece “Until activists produce evidence there actually is...
A piece in “The Conversation,” whose slogan is “Academic rigour, journalistic flair”, just hyped the sexy new “attribution science” that claims to attribute specific weather events to climate change even...
...as the world gets richer we get better and better at avoiding damages due to extreme weather. Elsewhere Pielke Jr. notes that deaths per 100,000 from weather and climate disasters...
...by wildfires” so maybe you can’t see at all. A story popular with the usual suspects is that, as Reuters “Sustainable Switch” puts it, “Risk specialists see extreme weather and...
...in ’52. As in 1852. And proxies suggest that by and large, over the last 2,000 years, Australian weather has been extremely nasty with drought predominating, while the middle of...
...extreme weather – but their Achilles’ heel is their massive electricity use.” And thus the much-hyped “AeroFarms filed for bankruptcy in early June, citing ‘significant industry and capital market headwinds.’…...
...care sector has a responsibility to urgently respond to the accelerating impacts of record temperatures, extreme weather events, and rising sea levels that are contributing to a full-fledged public health...
...the blast of climate-change-driven extreme weather last year “we saw growing consensus on the need to act with urgency”… as we were told to.) Trudeau may well be telling them...
...that we’re seeing unprecedented extreme weather without bothering to look it up. They don’t check current records to see whether the number of forest fires and floods is increasing before...
...word, that extreme weather is rumbling ominously toward us but when it arrives we probably won’t even notice. The implication is that your failure to notice only means you’re thick:...
...been heard of, let alone gone through its climate change phase. Extreme weather happens at the strangest times. (Just as having 10 named storms hit the U.S. mainland breaks a...
...to more floods, where’s the warming? Narrator For instance, in a special study on extreme weather in 2012, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change itself concluded: “In the...
...how to talk to kids about the increase in extreme weather. And you guessed it. You tell them the science is settled, all these hurricanes and fires and what-all are...
...is virtually nowhere the electricity grid isn’t vulnerable to the rising severity and duration of climate change-related extreme weather.’” Right, that’s the problem, not the rising severity and duration of...
...one thing at a time. Just as Greenpeace insists that “The threat of violence increases as the climate crisis makes extreme weather events more intense and frequent. The impacts on...
...of which may be associated with global warming.” What’s especially remarkable is that you can have extreme weather that’s not proof positive of climate breakdown. Or maybe it’s not remarkable...
...Revelation”, which is how he described the supposedly extreme weather conditions prevailing 15 years ago, which awkwardly is before climate change really hit us according to more up-to-date alarmists? Or...
...looks low but the year is incomplete): And despite great rhetorical gusts about an increase in extreme weather, wind speed is not going up. Instead as in many Canadian cities...
...Period conditions, conditions that, whatever else they may have been, were not a time of climate crisis. They weren’t even a period of extreme weather; if anything the reverse is...
Climate alarmists frequently claim increased extreme weather proves pernicious human impact on the environment. Even if they have to invent it, as with British media gullibly reprinting a recent study...
...and more intense and frequent extreme weather events impacting society and ecosystems, until we stop emitting greenhouse gasses,’ Burgess said.” Now “more climate records” is kind of vague and invites...
From the CO2Science Archive: Climate alarmists contend that extreme weather events, such as windstorms, tend to become more frequent or more intense – or both – when the world warms....
...destroying habitats and natural landscapes with flooding, droughts and other forms of extreme weather.”) But the year we narrowly beat out was 1908, and the ones we didn’t were in...
...and Diplomacy” from the Fletcher School, which apparently invented this cumbersome thing. Cliff Mass begs to differ. He puts forward the “Golden Rule of Climate Extremes” that “The more extreme...
...‘turning the extreme weather into a humanitarian disaster’, scientists have said. Global heating made the levels of rainfall that devastated the Mediterranean in early September up to 50 times more...
...climate heating or whatever the scare term du jour is. But while these temperatures were extraordinary, it then cooled fast, so last week it was seeing very non-frightening weather, with...
...as well as some computer models’ predictions. Narrator Temperatures in the troposphere have been measured independently by weather satellites since 1979 and weather balloons since 1958, so there’s data we...
...saying red meat causes bad weather embody an assumption rather than proving a proposition. And second, they embody the assumption that someone somewhere has tracked out all the impacts of...
...change but to “inclement weather”. Actually Reuters conceded that “Heavy snowfall is rare in Athens but the city has now been hit by snowstorms for a second consecutive year”. But...
...they’ll say OK, you can relax, climate change isn’t disrupting the jet stream. So no, it’s not just Ottawa and it’s not just weather. It’s winter and it came early...
...snowfall is just the weather we get whereas climate is the weather we expect to get. Or, how shall we put it delicately, the weather we’re definitely not getting, whether...
...weather patterns had not changed. The difference between what we would have predicted, based on the counterfactual weather, and what actually occurred reflects the influence of climate change.” So any...
...“UK weather forecast: Scorching Azores plume to trigger 32C heatwave in Britain as maps turn red” as if maps turning red were evidence of anything other than the capture of...
...significant increase in convective storms, and hail and severe thunderstorms.” Never you mind, lubber. “We will see more extreme heat events such as the record-setting heatwaves in the normally temperate...
No, contrails are not mind control. And no, the world’s governments are not secretly changing the weather in some vast Davos-centred cabal. If they were, do you seriously think it...
A perceptive reader suggests to us that instead of colouring 26°C charred red on weather maps that used to show it as pleasant green, weather forecasts might usefully also list...
As we noted last week, and most weeks prior, the computer models are terrible at making predictions. And then we cited Weatherbell’s prediction based instead on past weather patterns that...
...the rule won’t affect many people because contrary to what alarmists keep saying about insurance and extreme weather, it really is the case that “Electric car owners may face shocking...
...scariest, most extreme weather events of recent years. No hurricanes decimating neighborhoods. No major wildfires scorching the landscape.” Whereas in Manhattan everybody’s hair is on fire, at least metaphorically. Including...
...New York Times reported in what seems to be its “Extreme Weather” section, did eight other cities while four more tied records. And “A number of other places came close...
...occurred that were more extreme than recent ‘severe’ events like those in 2003 and 2009. Recent droughts are therefore not anomalous relative to the ~400-year pre-instrumental record and should be...
...occurrence of LLHI events linked to climate extremes is generally associated with low confidence, but cannot be excluded, especially at global warming levels above 4°C. Compound events, including concurrent extremes,...
...routinely analyze the data, and they publish their analyses. Indeed a few years ago the weather folks at Environment Canada went over all the numbers on short-duration downpours across Canada...
...but to a more extreme level, with longer periods of dry weather when we’re not getting these storms. But when we do get these storms, they have the potential to...
...notion that computer programmers in particular have extremely complete and reliable factual data about pretty much everything on Earth, under the sea and up in the sky and also extremely...
...gas and coal, the drought would have been far less extreme, the analysis found.” Well they would, wouldn’t they? Except the IPCC doesn’t. It mentions some past precipitation deficits in...
...we have previously reported, cold kills far more often and reliably than heat. For that reason, if the number of extremely hot days goes up and the number of extremely...
...is increasingly wide swings between extremely wet and extremely dry conditions,’ said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at University of California, Los Angeles. Humans are finding it difficult to adapt...
...is a thing of the past are dismissed with a patronizing sneer about weather not being the same as climate. For instance, the Telegraph said “Spring frosts, extreme summer drought...
...to climate change, it’s more extreme, it’s bad and so are you. But what if the weather today is not much different than, say, a hundred years ago? Impossible, right?...
...dying from climate change because it says so on the death certificate. Though if they start doing this it won’t be long before they have to add weather as another...
...hot weather. Based on a sample from Rhode Island, the study authors found that colder-than-normal weather led to 10 times the number of excess deaths as warmer-than-normal weather. Under future...
We already noted the irony that the great September 27 strike for climate was followed immediately by cold weather and even snow in western North America. Well now NBC and...
...via email that “The weather in September was so ‘gobsmackingly bananas’ that even scientists are spooked”. Which might lead the unwary to think NBC and other mainstream outlets have not...
...The Climate Alarm Network formerly known as the Weather Network blares that “Moon’s ‘wobble’ to amplify coastal flooding due to climate change, says NASA”. And CTV, quick to spot the...
...models are infamous for their inability to predict weather, even past weather, while the IPCC insists that we do not have much certainty even about what is happening let alone...
...people 85 or older. And cold is the main culprit. Across Europe as a whole, they attributed about 204,000 deaths to cold weather and about 20,000 to hot weather. On...
We know it because all the media coverage of Hurricane Ian says so. There are even #hashtags about it on social media, which is like proof, man. So what exactly...
...means ticks thrive in hot weather, right? Yes. Or, maybe no. They also like cool, wet weather. Either way it’s probably your fault. The increasing risk is real. In Ottawa,...
...dishes – salmon, oysters, coffee, wine – that could drastically change or disappear in the coming years as the climate warms and brings more volatile weather.” Could. Might. Or might...
...warns under the heading “UK weather: Records smashed as Britain sees hottest January day ever with temperatures warmer than Ibiza” that the place is on fire and quotes a “Senior...
...Michael hit as a Category 5 storm. Proof of climate-induced weather disaster? Well, not really, as it was “the first Category 5 hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane...
...Ice Age. But it’s not. It is coming from the global warming and it threatens all the normal weather patterns.” And of course in reporting his remarks CBS went into...
...created a model that links weather and climate – answering the question of why climate models can be reliable despite weather being changeable and chaotic.” So here instead we quote...
...Times David Leonhardt just said in the US Midwest “The main cause of the floods is extreme rain. The 12-month period ending in May was the wettest 12 months over...
...trends in extreme precipitation (bold added): “Overall, there is a lack of systematic analysis of long-term trends in sub-daily extreme precipitation at the global scale. Often, sub-daily precipitation data have...
...that recent ‘extreme’ events fall within a natural range of multi-century variability means that rather than being considered anomalies, extreme droughts should be expected and incorporated into drought management strategies.”...
...in this regard is extreme rainfall, because one of the simplistic truisms of climate science is that warmer air can hold more water ergo we should find extreme rainfall events...
...dotted horizontal lines on the image) in the record. Years defined as extremely dry included 1900, 1911, 1926, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1957, 1972 and 2013, whereas extremely wet years included...
...change and extreme weather have made SDS [sand and dust storms] a threat to more than 150 countries, causing economic damage and threatening health.” And in 2018 it was “Climate...
...weather that we've never seen before. Forest fires ravaging our country in extreme circumstances that we've also never seen before. People can't breathe the air. People are seeing flooding, heat...
...Here let us repeat that Lomborg is not any sort of “denier”. He makes rational points about supposed increases in extreme weather, the comparative deadliness of cold v heat and...
...mature, dependable, safe technologies ready to go. And if you believe one quarter of the yelling about extreme weather and social collapse and mass death if we don’t cut net...
...that rapid Arctic warming has ripple effects elsewhere around the planet. The warming alters the Earth’s atmosphere in ways that scientists believe can affect extreme weather events and other climate...
...in extreme weather, all of it bad, from floods to droughts to “extreme rainfall events”. So we’re going to revisit some of the same places whose temperature we charted in...
...tend to focus on arguments about low climate sensitivity and the lack of warming-induced extreme weather, and they quote the IPCC a lot. Alarmists talk about the climate crisis and...
...raves “Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more...
In its 2012 report on extreme weather the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that there was little evidence of changes in the magnitude and frequency of floods regionally and...
...CO2-driven climate change on human health and welfare are complex, ranging from greater incidence of extreme weather events, more frequent storm-surge flooding, and increased risk of crop failure (Duffy et...
...one. If you’re a journalist, don’t invent extreme weather. The corrected story is here. But, Muir tells us, the CBC promptly put the inaccurate claims into a new story. And...
...exceptional driving experience”. And of course “407 ETR recognizes the effects of increased frequency of extreme weather events due to climate change, such as heavy rainfall resulting in flooding and...
...contestants have told us they look for the series with higher volatility to spot the 2019 record because of the supposed increase in extreme weather. Others look for the series...
...states.” Bosh. As we’ve repeatedly documented, not even the IPCC says extreme weather is increasing. And it was warmer than today at numerous points “since the last ice age”, more...
...few months we’ve published a lot of dramatic-looking charts about extreme weather and climate change. But perhaps one of the most alarming has focused on Antarctic sea ice.” How “alarming”?...
...it’s definitely colder than today. One of the pernicious side-effects of endless uninformed babble about extreme weather getting worse is that it deceives even the babblers about what it was...
...rise and making currents and weather patterns more extreme.” You are of course pulling our leg, right? Not just with the vultures of the apocalypse. Because if the oceans were...
...on extreme wildfire behavior. Make no mistake: that influence is very real.” The problem is that, Brown also says, climate change “isn’t close to the only factor that deserves our...
...In the Alps however, located at the crossroads between the Mediterranean and Atlantic weather systems, the differences are extremely localized.” A bit of a contradiction there. But let’s not get...
...instalment we quote them on deaths due to extreme temperatures. Yes, heatwaves are bad, and yes, if the world warms we’ll have more. But cold snaps are also bad and...
...more could a progressive outfit ask than for capitalists to change the weather? But what if it works? What if, for a mere $1 billion, Google, Facebook and other heroes...
...years earlier: Aaaaaack. Devastating man-made warning in the mid-20th century. Horrible extreme weather, crop failure and mass extinction. We are all going to die. Except it’s a pure artifact. To...
...the continent face higher levels of risk to extreme weather events, that study adds, as climate change makes them more frequent and more severe, outpacing the countries’ ability to adapt.”...
...awkward point that if the number has risen steadily since 1972, you either think climate change has been causing extreme weather for 50 years or you’re just throwing in a...
...trends in extreme weather? Is there one provincial premier? As Binnion recently discovered to his dismay, the Quebec government and premier François Legault really think it’s OK to use fossil...
...immune from the devastating consequences of climate change. Rising temperatures are fueling environmental degradation, natural disasters, weather extremes, food and water insecurity, economic disruption, conflict, and terrorism. Sea levels are...
...obnoxious habit of seizing on a recent extreme weather event nobody predicted as proof of the theory that didn’t predict it. “Over the past two weeks, storms pummelling the New...
From CO2Science: Droughts are a normal feature of climate capable of causing some of the most devastating natural disasters. And according to climate alarmist theory, such extreme weather events should...
...warning from the Met Office that the age of extreme weather has just begun.” In case you’re thinking it’s all getting rather stale, he does up the shrillness by rebranding...
...and climate change. See “tornadoes are small. That makes them harder to model, and modeling is the primary tool that scientists use when attributing extreme weather events to climate change....
...And insurance companies who warn constantly of increases in extreme weather would be refusing to insure them. In short, follow the money, or watch what they do, not what they...
...say the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period existed. It claims that extreme weather increased dramatically as the planet cooled from the latter into the former, thus violating...
...a rise in temperatures of more than 1.5 Celsius that would unleash more extreme weather and heat.” Which scientists? Unleash what exactly? You don’t need that to start your day,...
...anxiety, not just because of all the extreme weather we’ve been having, but also because Australians fear that they are losing out on an economic opportunity.” One politicians and journalists...
...polar ice caps, accelerating sea level rise, more frequent and more severe extreme weather events, etc. No wonder the alarmists have gone to great lengths to discredit the UAH satellite...
...from the mass extinction of species to extreme weather and ecosystem changes that threaten global stability.” Scary yet vague. We’re not quite ready to open the sixth seal. But we...
...in, she quotes from the latest AR6 that “attribution of certain classes of extreme weather (eg, tornadoes) is beyond current modelling & theoretical capabilities”. Anyone claiming the story is simple...
...cubs. Finally, he says and we say told you so, extreme weather has not increased. Every politician, activist and online loudmouth hollers about hurricanes and wildfires. But not even the...
...Or the wet early spring across much of the American south? Well see, it’s all about the extreme weather. “It’s this variability that leaves many wondering what the long-term trends...
...evidence on things like extreme weather, and looks at what the IPCC really says instead of what people who didn’t bother reading its reports holler that it must have said,...
...change is accelerating with deadly consequences. The ecological systems that have sustained human life and societies for generations are being severely damaged by increasing heat and worsening extreme weather events.”...
...combination of observed data where available and data generated from 6-hour weather forecast models to fill in the gaps). These go back to 1958, and by clicking on a year...
...of fire retardant on glib claims of climate-driven trends in the kinds of weather that promotes forest fire (pp. 172-173): “The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System is a...
One curious feature of climate alarmism is that if there’s bad weather we’re told it’s because the Earth warmed, as if we know what it would have been like otherwise....
It was bound to happen. After a chilly spring due to weather, a hot dry spell in the United States caused by climate change is the harbinger of doom. According...
...are destabilizing the weather and wrecking your house and it serves you right. And indeed his insurance company more or less did tell him so, just more tactfully: “The increased...
Atmospheric temperature data from weather satellites has long been a thorn in the side of alarmists because it tends to show less warming than computer models predict or surface thermometers...
...data properly they get to draw an upward-sloping line: But this approach doesn’t measure the severity of the weather, it measures the size of the economy. The relevant number, and...
...weather will bring, whether China will invade Taiwan this year or whether Vladimir Putin is going to die tomorrow. But they now must determine what their data centre will do...
...and some climate-change-driven flooding, the Golden State got, of all things, some good weather. Just at random of course. Not due to global warming or boiling, climate change or breakdown,...
...purity of what I love is being destroyed…. today’s dialogue on climate and weather in reality have little to do with climate and weather. That’s the biggest shame of all.”...
...email teaser from Gizmodo said “Linen Is the Hot New Fabric of Summer Because of Climate Change”. Right. Because nobody wore linen in hot weather until… well, roughly 30,000 years...
...doing so fail horribly. As Williams points out, efforts to alter the weather have been going on for a long time, sometimes through mechanisms hard to understand in retrospect. For...
...in two ways. First, it makes no attempt to downplay the severity of the weather horrors regularly inflicted on the residents of the Southern and Central California regions. The 19th...
...North America as a whole has been getting more snow coverage in recent years, not less. Ah, but that’s just weather. Montreal is having climate. We are often lectured that...
...The Model T? And why it wasn’t a hurricane when it hit. Isn’t climate breakdown making them frighteningly routine? Also, the National Weather Service “official weather station for L.A. at...
...for the new normal never-ending heat waves suddenly to end. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which like all government media is all in on climate change, “The cold weather...
The people convinced we never had bad weather before are not resting on their lack of laurels over their failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Oh no. They are aiming...
...are facing one of their worst harvests in decades as a result of months of wild weather and a lack of labourers to pick the grapes…. The unstable weather, which...
Now that it’s fall, with characteristically large swings between warmth and cold it can be hard to keep track of what’s weather and what’s climate change. For instance GB News...
Via a CDN correspondent we recently learned of the remarkable website weatherstats.ca. It lets you see today's temperature across the country at a glance. But of far more interest to...
...attributed to our changing climate.” Which again misrepresents both the science and people’s actual experience, which is that the weather is weathery as always. As a reader/viewer reminds us, for...
Last week we introduced the website weatherstats.ca from which you can easily obtain long term charts of all kinds of historical weather data for Canadian locations. Once upon a time...
...many of the infamous Renaissance witch trials targeted people for causing “hellish weather”. Gee. (We might add that it was during the Little Ice Age when cooling temperatures brought extreme...
...was Canada’s 3rd worse year for insured damage from extreme weather. The costs of climate change continue to mount.” Or maybe we got richer and more populous so bad weather...
...hold, a panel of global experts has urged. Geoengineering is highly controversial, but discussions of its feasibility are gathering pace as the impacts of extreme weather, driven by climate breakdown,...
...a story at odds with the dominant doom-and-gloom narrative. But Eschenbach wisely picked one statistic central to the claim that a warming planet will bring lethal increases in extreme weather:...
...with a spectacular capacity for failing upwards. And for making sonorous nonsense sound like wisdom. For instance, that story says, “With more frequent extreme weather, massive wildfires and natural disasters...
...impossible’ if not for climate change, according to a group of scientists who study the probability of extreme weather events.” Because, apparently, we never used to have heatwaves. A British...
...– will face more frequent heatwaves which put them at greater health risk, while shocks from extreme weather and climate-related conflict displace hundreds of millions from their homes. We’re falling...
...be replaced by dire “flooding comments”. And sure enough, on June 28 the New York Times went west on him with “Extreme weather is threatening California’s dams, and a single...
...world’s surface freshwater and thus of the diatoms, well, kaff thud we all go. We also get extreme weather, which you saw coming rhetorically if not out your window: “with...
...as adaptation, international economic spillovers, transition within industries and regions, as well as exceptional increases in extreme weather events.’ The projection by the budget watchdog is ‘a means to focus...
...isolated species few in number on a small inhospitable island with no reservoir is vulnerable to extinction due to extreme weather conditions. Which the Western Pacific certainly has, and has...
...They say “There are many Canadians across the political spectrum who want to talk about our energy future, but don’t share the black or white extreme views.” The “extreme” views...
...warming could also lead to extreme rainfall, affecting living conditions and the ability to grow crops. At the same time, other parts of the world would become uninhabitable as a...
...observed for the rest of the record. But there have been episodes of extreme wet and dry years. For instance, extreme dry years were identified in 1770, 1796, 1831, 1928,...
...of the province has experienced prolonged drought and extreme heat over the last two summers, and the seedlings have shallow root systems that don’t reach beyond the very dry layers...
...measuring temperatures outside those local hotspots? Heck no. Instead the New York Times “Climate Forward” chipped in a tale of “How extreme heat affects workers and the economy” that featured...
...physical evidence or epigraphic markings providing evidence of river flows, and instrumental river flow data from several catchment systems across the nation, building a reliable database of extreme flood events...
From the CO2Science Archive: Climate alarmists continue to claim that global warming will lead to more extreme (both high- and low-volume) river flows, characteristic of more extreme drought and flood...
...especially Donald Trump. Leonhardt says the rain is exceptionally heavy and such events are “the new normal”. And the data say otherwise. According to Leonhardt, “Extreme rain is the new...
...claim in the 2017 US National Climate Assessment that greenhouse gases were behind an upward trend in American 20th century extreme precipitation trends. Using data from cities across the US...
Edmundston, NB, like Halifax and Vancouver, declares a climate change emergency. The mayor alleges “torrential rains and extreme flood events, increased frequency and intensity of extreme heat, and the proliferation...
...in the summer. And from our look at it here, the extreme rainfall events haven’t increased. I’m aware that many people have noticed that some extremes have gone up in...
...inter-annual (Rind et al., 1989; Held and Soden, 2006; Boer, 2009; Wetherald, 2010) timescales,” while additionally noting that “expectations are for precipitation extremes in storm events to increase with the...
...not. Plot spoiler: take a guess. This week we bring you Lomborg's look at projected impacts of extreme events like floods, wildfires and hurricanes. Although what he really looks at...
...When baseline temperatures are higher, as they are in a world that has warmed nearly 2 degrees since 1900, extreme heat will likely be even more extreme.” Now that figure...
...cold weather (seriously, experienced gardeners keep insisting that CDN not attempt to put any seedlings in the ground until the Victoria Day weekend because… it’s too cold right now), it...
...that moves heat gets closer to collapse, which could cause weather chaos, study says” and “Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds”. And if you’re into nameless dread,...
Weather sure is complicated. But climate is dead simple, we’re told. Even a schoolgirl can understand it and all voters are meant to lean in to fix it… until you...
...malnutrition, extreme poverty and deaths from natural disasters are plummeting. Facts be hanged, every topic is now climate change and it’s all bad. If they drop their guard they’ll praise...
London Ontario, down there in tornado alley, is accustomed to the vagaries of weather and the ability of an ordinary thunderstorm to turn into an anything-but-ordinary funnel cloud. Is this...
...the troposphere? Does it even matter at the Earth's surface? Will it be harmful? How does it affect weather extremes? None of these questions are settled. Breathless claims of 5-sigma...
From CO2Science: Climate alarmists often contend that global warming is responsible for creating more frequent and greater extremes of various types of weather, including precipitation. It is fairly simple to...
...the “Current Results” site offering “weather and science facts,” while conceding that the City of Brotherly Love was at its steamiest on July 3, 1966 and July 10, 1936, helpfully...
...pondering the question of Canadian temperature records more generally. And here’s something worth noting. In Wikipedia’s list of extreme temperatures in Canada by province or territory, the all-time highs for...
...weather patterns and extremes in temperate zones.” Only in bad ways, of course, the science being settled that all impacts of warming are bad. Thus “Positive-feedback loops risk the release...
...how global warming is making the polar vortex wavier, thereby accounting for all this cold weather over North America. Thus Tony Heller unearthed a 2014 video from Obama’s science advisor...
...“The world is already experiencing increasingly erratic weather, including stronger storms and more unpredictable and extreme rainfall patterns, leading to deluges in some places and droughts in others. Even if...
...taste better”. Even if they add an obligatory ominous “for now”. No, really. They actually admit that plants prefer warm weather. Next they’ll be letting on that CO2 is good...
The Climate Research Unit or CRU at the University of East Anglia is one of a few places where weather data from around the world are gathered and analysed to...
...to Japan. But those were just weather, with death, disruption and heartwarming tales of Washington zoo pandas “frolicking in the wintry conditions”. It used to be the case that unusual...
...list the “Television & Multimedia”. Well, ABC, CBS, “Cheddar” (not comic relief or cheese, it’s a thing), NBC, MSNBC, two PBS programs, The Weather Channel (but you guessed), The Weather...
...of Engineers' flood management and hang their hopes on a weather cycle that will come to an end, experts say those who work in agriculture need to prepare for climate...
...is now responsible and is making them worse. So when people claim that climate change means more severe weather, these are the storms they want you to think of. By...
...“good weather forecasts” including by interpolating where we don’t have data. (And before you laugh, he says short-term weather forecasts are actually pretty good when done right.) Using this approach,...
...like a packet of uncooked ramen noodles glued to a green party streamer than anything of the navigational or weather-observing variety. These odd jellyfish had one role in life: to...
...corn crop productivity. The result: changes in climate translated into improved growing conditions because farmers changed techniques to take advantage of new weather conditions. Quelle surprise: once we make realistic...
...in all of the world’s oceans”. And as we all know, hot weather only ever does bad things from killing nice birds, animals and coral to spreading nasty algae while...
...no hurricanes, or a pleasant summer and a mild fall? Well, the theory goes, that’s just nature at work. It’s weather. But how do we know? Perhaps we were in...
...of the weather being insanely different at 2.1°C than at 1.9°C is minimal. In fact, Roger Pielke Jr. just objected, the press keep reporting things like “heavier rainstorms driven by...
...weather were 6.7 times higher than those due to hot weather. What is more, Huber et al. report “the effect of cold peaked a few days after the exposure and...
...atmosphere, instead it happened unevenly, such as in a big jump in the 1980s. They also noticed that the weather in the Netherlands is strongly affected by which direction the...
On the left, the BBC weather forecast for July 12 1999 with temperatures reaching 29C shown as orange on the map and described as “one more day of fine and...
...any real lasting impacts from this kind of weather.” You get the idea? Life is weird and so is weather and it’s cool when something odd happens as long as...
...Jonglei state, South Sudan, July 2013”. So climate change is poking out eyes in Sudan in 2013. Wow. There really is nothing it cannot do. From the “weather porn” file,...
A lot of people believe that inadequacies in modeling weather and climate are due to the fact that the computers are not yet fast enough to do the complex calculations...
...warming leads to more severe weather, thus adding to the many other “specific parts of the planet” where several other types of severe weather have also not increased as predicted....
...foregone conclusion that the weather now is completely unlike the weather that befell the city back when Sir Robert Borden was Prime Minister. You be the judge. One of the...
...heat?” you just know what’s coming. It’s merely weather. In this case “Blame the jet stream”. Now you may think you know where the summer heat is: in the pages...
...periods of snow, ice, heavy rainfall and arctic cold will result in highly disruptive weather through Friday for millions from coast-to-coast”. And in DC itself, as of March 12, the...
One day man will be able to predict the weather far into the future. Maybe. On his blog Cliff Mass notes that weather forecasts have improved in the short run...
...too weathery for avocadoes (no, really, the punchline is “weather in these places is already changing” without any effort to say in what manner) and clearly avocadoes, being “tropical” according...
...need diesel heaters on board. As a fed-up viewer comments, “I guess the Edmonton city council was not aware that Edmonton usually has cold weather from mid November to Mid...
...(Walmart). Even woke corporations can’t help but notice that hot weather is good. Canadian Tire also offers a corny “HOT SALE Find great deals on BBQs, smokers and outdoor cooking...
...quite prepared to shrug and say that weather is variable. Thus Ottawa in our absence had its wettest Remembrance Day on record, proving nothing. But if the Canadian west were...
...difference. But according to the online weather enthusiast “Ottawa Weather Records”, we in Canada’s capital are now tied for the fourth-highest number of days above 0°C in a year since...
...No, wait. Damages and death are soaring, right? Absolutely. “Extreme rainfall and flooding is becoming more common” and: “According to scientists, weather events such as Storm Babet have become far...
...alarm. And what does the emergency consist of? Radically different weather than in decades past? Only if rhetoric counts as rainfall. As Ross McKitrick notes in his Vancouver Sun column,...
...flows and decreased summer flows where streamflows are lower and that the observed increases in extreme precipitation led to greater probability of flooding at regional scales with medium confidence. [The...
...extreme poverty to education, health care, human rights and more, the trends are not only going in the right direction but the speed of improvement is breathtaking. Even our ecological...
From the CO2Science Archive: K. Heine notes that “droughts and floods represent extreme conditions, and are precisely those that are foreseen to increase in [the] future with global change.” Hence,...
...when we’re “warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world” which has already “meant extreme heat, melting glaciers, thawing permafrost and rising sea levels” and “If you...
...past streamflow variability in order to better prepare for future droughts, as well as to determine if extreme droughts that may occur in the future might possibly be attributable to...
...than back then? (Or that periodically extreme cold does something like crack an LRT line in Edmonton, unlike the bucolic winters of our youth?) Maybe that climate is complicated and...
...“its incorrect use can lead to spuriously high probabilities of extreme precipitation levels.” Hence, using what they consider to be more appropriate and “more robust nonparametric techniques,” they found that...
...find? First of all, the four U.S. researchers report that “the spatial features of the January 2014 USPV [United States Polar Vortex] were not extreme relative to certain 1948-2013 Januaries,”...
In the Financial Post, Henry Geraedts writes that “what actually happened” at the UN’s COP26 Glasgow Climate Change confab last November was extremely significant. “Net Zero’s magical thinking met unyielding...
...skewer yet another batch of alarmist slogans. Anyone who works with precipitation data (as I have done) knows it is extremely variable and trends in one location may run counter...
...in general, weather and climate extremes are not getting worse. Second, where they are happening, they are doing a lot less harm. Taking the second point first, we pointed out...
...associated with extreme phenomena such as tornadoes, hail, heavy precipitation (rain or snow), strong winds, and lightning. The assessment of changes in severe convective storms in SREX (Chapter 3, Seneviratne...
...from specific times in Earth’s four-billion-year history when the planet was extremely hot or extremely cold.” Which is apparently that humans are the cause of climate change, oddly enough. Over...
...including the Weather Channel. It’s hard to keep up; it seems only yesterday the US National Assessment was alarmed that the US was suffering from a century-long increase in extreme...
...weekend of weather, including extreme heat and severe storms” that said: “In addition to increasing the risk of heat-related illnesses and deaths, the hot and dry conditions in the West...
...years ago). The extreme ice loss caused more than three metres of average global sea level rise – and worryingly, it took less than 2˚C of ocean warming for it...
...They still used the same assumptions about radiative forcing per unit of GHGs. Rather, the surge in temperature came from a new extreme emission scenario called A1FI, which predicted a...
...resilience in our most vulnerable communities, including a comprehensive strategy to protect Californians from extreme heat. With lives and livelihoods on the line, we cannot afford to delay.” It’s like...
...QED. The piece starts with the usual blast of selective alarums: “Since 2008, extreme rainfalls have increased in frequency and intensity, and roughly 20 of the most extreme events recorded...
...right? Paper reviewed: Hagen, A.B. and Landsea, C.W. 2012. On the classification of extreme Atlantic hurricanes utilizing mid-twentieth-century monitoring capabilities. Journal of Climate 25: 4461-4475. What was done In an...
...2/3 of a degree. It also turns out that Verkhoyansk is known for weather extremes including a remarkable range between its bitter lows (average monthly temperature in January -45.4° C)...
...start to the Times’ text: “This has been a year of extreme heat and extreme drought across much of the planet. We’ve all seen the pictures: cracked earth, roaring wildfires,...
...areas where the smaller number of hurricanes had a greater tendency to be extreme ones. This happened in the Northwest Pacific near Japan, east of Madagascar and in a tiny...
...they seem to have understood the website. On Fire was written by Naomi Klein, a controversial alarmist who pushes an extreme view on the need for radical climate policy to...
...they learn? Paper reviewed: Quansheng Ge, Jingyun Zheng, Zhixin Hao, Yang Liu & Mingqi Li. 2016. Recent advances on reconstruction of climate and extreme events in China for the past...
...the CBC obliged with “What Canadians need to know about how climate change is affecting their health” followed by “Lancet report on health and climate highlights extreme heat, wildfire and...
...insisted that “Heatwaves kill more Americans than any other weather-related disaster.” And yet, they noted, Americans are moving en masse to the hot parts of the country. The headline told...
...the coauthors that the sky is more or less literally on fire: “Due to more frequent and more intense wildfires, as well as other extreme events, the composition of the...
...really does tie himself in knots. He says: “Over the past few decades, climate scientists have made huge strides in understanding the future climate. But after recent weeks of extreme...
...were extremely high. As the Washington Post noted with misplaced sympathy: “Justice Elena Kagan, writing for herself and fellow liberal justices Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, countered that the...
...guessed what the source is for this: the IPCC’s 2012 Special Report on Extreme Weather which reported (p. 176) “In the United States and Canada during the 20th century and...
The BBC, Paul Homewood notes, has been forced to retract fake claims about extreme weather based on a now discredited paper by Britain’s IPPR that we mentioned last week. Typically,...
We recently reported on the IPCC’s new map-based Atlas showing compilations of research on historical trends in all manner of climate data, including measures of extreme weather. Since politicians and...
...comments on our own website show all too well, alarmists very often take an “extreme weather has increased, case closed” approach to the complexities of climate. The first step in...
...Professor Alimonti’s assessment of global indicators of extreme weather we find the following statement regarding scientific evidence of flooding: “About floods it can be said that although evidence of an...
...they have no clear reason to do so, almost as if the “extreme weather” mantra has convinced them dry conditions are an unprecedented novelty. But occasionally a glimmer of science...
...losses due to extreme weather. Economists and environmentalists had pushed the Biden administration to fundamentally change the climate modeling that's used to calculate social costs in ways that would increase...
...shift can be accomplished in the US by 2030 (Ocasio-Cortez 2019). Such claims are simply too extreme to be defended as aspirational. The complete decarbonization of the global energy supply...
...the “settled science” file, Heatmap tells us “We know dangerously little about how hot it’s getting inside” before insisting that “Heat is the deadliest extreme weather phenomenon in the United...
...developing countries far short of the funds they need to build cleaner energy and cope with extreme weather. And it leaves unresolved the crucial question of exactly how the burden...
...is that politicians can even get themselves in trouble for quoting the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with its very cautious assessments of things like extreme weather, rather than...
...course one explanation is to retreat into vagueness, blaming “extreme weather” on “climate change”. But as we have noted and will continue doing until it becomes as tedious as shoveling...
From the CO2Science Archive: Climate alarmists typically contend that in response to global warming, extreme weather events such as drought will become more frequent and severe. It is therefore important...
...in their adversaries, have no idea that the physics behind the models is not “simple”, that the data are not conclusive, that extreme weather is not demonstrably increasing or that,...
...few weeks alone, extreme weather events continue to sweep the nation from the severe wildfires of the West to the devastating Midwest derecho and damaging Gulf Coast hurricanes,’ said Rostin...
...the day, especially apocalyptic extreme weather and the like. This week: Droughts. The IPCC (Chapter 11) discusses various mechanisms that cause drought conditions, so this week we start with insufficient...
...people.” But to his discredit he then parroted the extreme alarmism in response to which massive civil disobedience is the logical result: “All these young people feel nothing is ever...
...cripple the economy. Unfortunately, it will be extremely difficult to do both at once.” And they never saw it coming. Plus he has to save the planet on the side....
...past decades the number of extreme weather events has increased by a factor of five in the WHO European Region, which covers 53 member states across Europe and Central Asia.”...
...to note, the problem with linking GHGs to an increase in extreme weather is that no such increase has occurred, making the alleged causal mechanism highly problematic, to say the...
...And Extinction Rebellion’s claims are almost without exception a load of codswallop unsupported by the facts about temperature, extreme weather or anything else including that politicians and the press had...
...she’d flown to Newfoundland the previous week to host a “Climate Change Roundtable” and make various ill-founded remarks about extreme weather. It was especially awkward that while in Newfoundland she...
...of the extremes of climatic parameters, such as temperature, storminess, precipitation, etc., an obvious point being that Global Warming might be responsible.” What was done: Erlykin et al. report results...
...heat waves, hurricanes, and other extreme weather—that much is widely understood. The larger problem is that the overheated atmosphere has in turn overheated the oceans, assuring a catastrophic amount of...
...you with phony alarmist claims about increasing rates of extreme weather or rising, falling or fluctuating Great Lakes water levels. I’m trying to get a discussion going that’s focused on...
...the Earth’s climate is unstable in one single direction namely a runaway greenhouse effect with extreme weather, everything bad getting worse and everything good getting bad. If this vision were...
...extreme weather. The paper found little evidence of upward trends in most disaster types. That inevitably ran afoul of the climate censors who mounted a media campaign to get the...
...removed from the grid too fast to meet continuing electricity demand, and that is putting most of the country at risk of grid failure and blackouts during extreme weather. The...
...it, because it’s always worse than it is. “Warmer water will generate hurricanes and extreme weather like that, so there are definitely implications from our work,” said one of the...
...climate change, extreme weather is upon us and it’s time to plant trees and “lift plans for clean, green, healthy and resilient communities at home towards action for the whole...
...stressed by ever-increasing demands for air conditioning and water. The Southeast faces increased hurricane risks. The heartland is seeing extremes of both heat and precipitation. In relatively cool places like...
...changes to the climate that are making extreme weather – and the suffering that it brings – worse.” In the real world, we hear from of all things BNN Bloomberg...
...telling you what the authors said concerning extreme weather trends. This week we look at droughts. Drought imagery is reliably horrifying, so whenever the media need a scary visual to...
...but winters are milder meaning Peter Stott’s quoted claim that “The frequency of extreme temperatures is increasing” is “ludicrous”. Besides, Homewood says, “daily temperature extremes are not increasing, in the...
...by tensions over trade, technology and human rights.” And NBC peddled a similar tale, complete with the experts who say: “Experts say that the extreme weather being experienced all over...
...solar cycles and weather cycles on Earth. And indeed they may be coincidences, because it is not always obvious why such changes in solar activity, very small as a percentage...
...one of the major problems plaguing humanity from time immemorial without also fixing the weather? Though if you put up your hand and mention the people who through a marvellously...
...Hence if you drill down into the “livable climate” section of the “strategy”, once you get past the hoo-hah about “more intense heat, rising sea levels, and more extreme and...
...scenarios of epidemics unleashed by global warming, scientists say.” Ah yes. The experts who say. And of course the governments who say. The Weather Network goes full metal alarmism, saying...
...own weather system but may also be powerful enough to actually change the climate, according to scientists from Australia and the United States.” And everybody knows changing the climate is...
...economy instead. Porn is not too strong a term. For instance on the Daily Kos, an extremely popular left-wing American website, an April 1 article (the same day as Canada’s...
...his carbon tax hikes, insisted “he doesn’t understand why NDP is pulling back from carbon price support” in the face of its extreme unpopularity. Then there’s also Climate Home News...
...Forward” chipped in that a new study: “found a 27-fold increase in the number of Americans exposed to an extreme smoke day between 2006 and 2020. That was principally in...
...a social construct or something and, well as in the old jingle, “Whssst chomp burp”. No, wait. All climate news remains bad. Hence the Weather Network thunders: “Severe storm risk...
...wildfires and droughts” as well as “societal problems like economic inequality and racial injustice”. (The truly affordable and reasonable answer to their list of weather extremes is simply to look...
...to ridiculous extremes. Narrator: That bright yellow ball in the sky is basically Earth’s only source of energy, though a very small amount radiates from the planet’s hot core. The...
...batteries and transmission lines – to harness widely dispersed, insufficient, intermittent, weather-dependent wind and solar energy to benefit Sub-Saharan Africans – are anything but clean, green, renewable or sustainable. In...
...link between the changes in U.S. weather in the recent past to the larger trend of warming.” Whereas an innuendo about the indirect links, followed by a snide reference to...
...as the Weather Network hyperventilates in telling us the last time CO2 hit 415 ppm there weren’t even people (making one wonder which emergent diseases AOC had in mind), it’s...
...are out in force shouting about climate change, but if winter is cold they huddle indoors insisting it's just weather. But recently they upped their game, or at least their...
Or rather storms. Beginning in mid-December, it was as clear as it ever is with weather forecasting that something nasty was coming. Something cold, and cold kills more people than...
...among the elderly by the mid to late 21st century. Consequently, it is clear that cold weather is much more a serious threat to human health than warm weather, and...
...the onboard weather radar,’ says Paul Williams, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Reading and an international expert on the subject. ‘It is one of the few weather...
...christened Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, mercifully shortened for non-Italian students to Dante Alighieri or just “Dante”. But it actually refers to a sudden spell of foul weather in the...
...claim being presented without question. This week our inaugural visit is to Huntsville, Alabama, where the local TV station showed just how bad the hot weather is getting. Since 1970...
...than 100 million people under weather alerts as massive storm moves east” because Ukraine is not the only story. Nor is it irrelevant to suggest that self-destructive green energy policies...
...thing, though, is that: “Silicate, which is based in Sligo, has developed an ‘enhanced weathering technology’ which aims to permanently remove millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere....
...are kept that governments use to forecast the weather in 2119. But we'll settle for just being able to tell whether rainfall in 2019 is so unusual compared to 1919...
...nothing that comes of warming is good. Why, climate change will raise food prices in Canada by 4% next year. But wouldn’t warmer weather mean a longer growing season, unlike...
...If it’s so gol-durn hot, why does the weather seem normal to most people who aren’t journalists, politicians and climate activists? If the planet set a record, why didn’t your...
...prices and rent. While inflation is a global challenge – caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine – we are helping families weather its...
...so much better? Food production is up, malnutrition is down, literacy is up, poverty is down, etc. etc. But no, the alarmists cry, look at all the terrible weather we've...
In the upside-down world of climate science, where every bad thing is caused by climate change and there is a voracious need for weather disasters to prove just how bad...
...bombs before. Nor is it a term meteorologists use. For instance, weatherzone.com asks “Is a ‘rain bomb’ really a thing?” And answers no: “there is no such thing as a...
At any rate, that’s what the Weather Network thinks, for Ottawa and much of Canada. But how can it be? Isn’t global warming, well, warming us up? Wasn’t 2019 the...
Newsflash: We don’t heat our houses in hot weather. Too obvious to mention? Alas no. It’s the sort of detail that matters when grave experts gather to estimate the social...
...have the Internet on our computers so we checked and guess what? Same dismal weather. Someone better tell “the scientists”. Actually the data we obtained was not from within Glasgow...
...not as odd as it seems. Since many climate alarmists insist that the very mild warming since 1850 has already unleased “havoc” in the form of terrible weather we never...
...minor changes in U.S. GHG emissions will affect the weather in the United States is scarcely more absurd than thinking changes in Irish emissions will affect the weather in Ireland....
...habitats to ones that used to be cooler, away from the Equator toward the poles, in which case cold-weather life forms would hit the wall first (say, those obstinately flourishing...
...jet stream would be getting bendier. Now they’ve discovered something else: the jet stream isn’t getting bendier at all. Sometimes cold weather is just cold weather. The article at phys.org...
...becoming more common.” Could, might, maybe… or not. In fact hail is not unusual in warm weather in Mexico for reasons that are quite well understood. And there weren’t five...
...French bees. No, really. According to The Guardian “French beekeepers expect their worst harvest in decades as unseasonably cold and wet weather due to climate change has prevented bees from...
...won’t change the weather. Or the shortage of nurses. As Parker Gallant recently noted, very slightly over half of Canadian households use natural gas for heating. And the next great...
...tiresomely asserts that virtually every important consequence of climate change will be bad. In “Appendix D: Climate Vulnerabilities and Risks by Focus Area” we find that warmer weather and less...
...girls, (and apparently the salary is a stingy $207,000) what has he actually done to save us from sinful bad weather, well, uh, there you have us. Irony can be...
...rainfall and soil moisture worldwide. Wait, what, greening? Yes. It turns out all that extra "carbon pollution" combined with slightly warmer weather has added so much foliage since the ‘80s...
...method has withstood many challenges and has been validated independently by other data sets, including observations from weather balloons. You can see the Spencer-Christy data at the University of Alabama...
...story, South Shore’s high was 3C. Whereas in Ottawa it was… 3C. With rain. Oops. In the less drastic scenario where we do reduce emissions, Ottawa’s weather would supposedly turn...
...Concerns/ Scientists are worried about the effect this change could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.” Whereas if it were warming… And from the “summer is...
...off a figurative or literal cliff. Which is why if there’s a bumper crop in, say, New South Wales, it’s just weather. It seems that news outlets have lost perspective...
...it’s nowhere near done. So they can do easy stuff like change the weather… but not hard things like twin an already existing pipeline. And another thing. Blacklock’s Reporter tells...
...sage. You can say climate change makes penguins swim north to New Zealand, or that it brings cold weather and floods, or hot weather and floods. You can say it...
...fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect, and in it he demonstrates in no uncertain terms the reality of the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age. Maunder...
...of “trends” up or down. But that's the nature of weather. Flipping a coin repeatedly will cause some runs of heads or tails, and longer runs where one or the...
...run more detailed weather models for research on solar geoengineering, said Kristen Rasmussen, a climate scientist at Colorado State University who is studying how human-made aerosols, which can be used...
...age is characterized by significant polar ice. And it matters that they are rare, because when discussing what “normal” weather consists of, and what nature would be up to absent...
...dangerous shifts in climate and weather. These real, observable changes are what we call climate change impacts because they are the visible ways that climate change is affecting the Earth....
...without casualties however, with some farms hit by flooding, weather damage, harvest delays and, in some cases, the total loss of crops.” Well duh. When’s the last time farmers didn’t...
According to Iowa plant physiologist Dr. Jeff Schussler, global warming has yielded “particularly pleasant weather“ for North American crops since 1970. In a January talk at the Ontario Agricultural Conference...
...start hyping wildfires and climate, AFP says: “Neither human-induced climate change nor the El Niño weather phenomenon were determining factors in the devastating forest fires that killed more than 130...
...will be pleased to learn that Arctic sea ice is at higher levels now than it has been in 13 of the past 15 years. According to Perspectaweather, the North...
...of children, has been grotesquely common from Carthage to China, and from Tenochtitlan to Tanzania. So has bad weather. And variable weather. Indeed, the piece includes a chart of “El...
...said global temperatures have risen 1.1 degrees Celsius since the 1850-1900 period due to humans burning fossil fuels, driving an increase in the intensity and frequency of weather disasters.” You...
...a “silent majority” within the industry knows it. It’s a particular problem that they don’t work well in cold weather; as the Wall St. Journal pointedly asked, “Imagine if the...
...alive.’” Though what steps they could take to change the weather measurably in the next four years wasn’t totally clear. The UK government media outlet then committed a true howler,...
...northern tip of Greenland.” And in their enthusiasm they are overlooking the extreme political incorrectness of the news that “During the region’s warm period, when average temperatures were 20 to...
...National Archive in Chester Hill and found the actual handwritten records for the nearby official weather station at Brewarrina, showing 50.6°C on that day. Strange that the meteorological authorities couldn’t...
...hot weather illustrates the threat from climate change caused by burning fossil fuels.” Or, as the Indians might understandably reply, the threat from not having enough energy to run the...
...arguably, the best time to try to give away billions to pay for bad weather on the other side of the world while continuing to hammer your own energy industry....
...how climate change has shaped the disaster, but they know that global warming is sharply increasing the likelihood of extreme rain in the South Asia, home to a quarter of...
...of dollars annually on heating bills and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” according to federal cabinet propaganda. Except nobody did. Yet these politicians still think they can change the weather...
...data friends at weatherstats.ca to obtain the available record on annual maximum wind gusts back to 1955. Here it is: https://fredericton.weatherstats.ca/charts/wind_gust_speed-yearly.html Yes, what you’re seeing is a downward trend. The...
...summertime weather. And who wouldn’t prefer an old-time Blackpool beach scene to that awful Riviera? The idea is that by 2100 the UK could see a temperature over 40°C once...
...Pacific El Niños, like those that occurred in 1997/98 and 2015/16 may be growing in intensity.’” So we’ve had unusual weather lately because we’ve had unusual ocean currents. But are...
...a range between and -20C, March bounces between -10 and +5. So, not great tanning weather. Or great panicking weather. So we’ll keep looking for the heat up north next...
...grants. And more headlines. The Euronews piece also insists that: “In the past several years, scientists have noted more extreme and harmful weather – floods, storms, droughts and heat waves...
...too.) But the real story in the aftermath of the storm is the resilience of wealthy societies. Advanced economies are so well able to deal with problems, including bad weather,...
...conclusion. The biggest contributor to increased yields hasn’t been genetically modified (GM) corn – it has been the longer growing seasons and mild weather promoted by climate change.” Whoa nelly....
A site called “Severe Weather Europe” tells us “An incredible temperature high of 18.3°C (65°F) has been measured in Antarctica! This is possibly the highest temperature on the continent since...
...out the extremes. In cool places and winter seasons, we heat and we insulate, using every trick in the book to keep deadly cold at bay. And when it’s hot...
...whose episodes Min Bannister says “what a nice summer evening, typical English weather” and Henry Crun responds “yes, the rain is lovely and warm. Minnie, I think I'll take one...
If you listen to its city councillors, Edmonton is facing a Climate Emergency. We prefer looking at the climate data, which is easily done courtesy of weatherstats.ca. Edmonton temperatures do...
On the prairies you can see the weather coming from far away. But if you want to see climate change, you might have to squint hard. One of these lines...
...growing global population,” and by more specifically noting that “fluctuations in Canadian production due to weather can have a significant impact on the world wheat supply,” which they remind us...
...from the north, then the next it’s sunny and warm with a southern breeze. Before climate-induced weather amnesia set in people knew such variation was common and natural, but now...
...we expect the top item would be that there is an expert consensus, followed by it having warmed in the last 150 years, and then the weather getting worse, and...
...warming from greenhouse gases should be strongest and fastest. Thankfully there is data covering that region from both satellites and weather balloons although we don’t expect government agencies to make...
...2015)” [IPCC SR1.5 p. 244] In the AR6 they had a bit more to say on the subject. In short they said that climatic events like droughts or weather disasters...
...own backyard. According to the data, Winnipeg will go from about having two weeks of 30 C weather to seven-and-a-half weeks by 2080. The data also shows that we will...
...A relationship between the chironomid assemblage data and mean summer (JJA) temperature recorded at the Ivittuut weather station (AD 1873-1960) and at the Narsarsuaq weather station allowed the scientists to...
...to the atmosphere cause temperature to rise, weather to change, or anything else? If climate is very sensitive to CO2, everything we do matters. If it’s not, well, there’s no...
...seeks counterexamples before popping the corks or, in this case, tolling the funeral bell. The piece, in Euronews.green, leads off with “Wild weather swings from severe drought to heavy rains...
...Little Ice Age, for example, reached its extreme point in the 15th century in the Pacific Ocean, the 17th century in Europe and the 19th century elsewhere, says one of...
...the guy driving the sled, namely Olsen, who “forced” the dogs to go that way.) Anecdotes do the trick. Thus NBC MACH quotes a surfer and self-taught weather forecaster that,...
...fleeing crop failure due to a combination of drought and flooding, without noting that Guatemala has long faced poverty and bad weather and what’s changed is the increasing ease of...
...suggested that nations are falling prey to a flawed logic that fossil fuels will help them weather this period of instability, which has seen gas prices climb to a record-high...
...isn’t climate. It’s weather. Warming is climate. So guess what? “This particularly long La Niña is probably just a random blip in the climate, scientists say. But some researchers are...
...research suggests that we've ‘reached the point where a majority (perhaps a vast majority) of unprecedented extreme heat events globally have a detectable human influence.’” And the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t prose style...
...It almost seems as though the purpose here was not to vindicate Mann but to ruin Steyn, an acerbic and extremely popular right-wing commentator. It gets worse. To give such...
...the rich poor, except the ones in charge. It’s that “settled science” again, this time from the “special rapporteur on extreme poverty” of the UN Human Rights Council, Philip Alston,...
...adds, in lieu of evidence, “scientists say” or for variety “experts say”, supposedly putting the point beyond question. As in, “Climate change behind increases in extreme rain danger, scientists say.”...
...responses to extreme climatic indices in coastal China from 1986 to 2015. Science of the Total Environment 744: 140784, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140784. Among their key findings the authors report NPP increased across...
...may appear as an extremely intense cooling if the future natural climate is going to develop as an analog of some of the preceding warm periods.” Since this has indeed...
...the law is extremely unclear. … Here is how the Kamala Harris press release puts it: ‘COVID-19 has laid bare the realities of systemic racial, health, economic, and environmental injustices...
...politicians into taking extreme measures. But clearly there is an element of model jiggery-pokery at work. Humlum concludes: “For coastal planning, as usual, observations from traditional tide gauges remain the...
...an extreme negative phase that persists for ~25 yr,” during which period the glaciers retreated “at rates of greater than 100 m/yr.” Continuing with their history, Pederson et al. report...
...al. 2020), based on models that use the implausible and extreme RCP8.5 ‘worst case’ climate change scenario (e.g. Hausfather and Peters 2020) that polar bear biologists find so compelling.” Of...
...variability (---) might affect the detection of trends in extreme daily streamflow events (---). However, these activities have a minor impact on annual streamflow compared to climate variations (---). Available...
...relief. When the Trump administration finalized its long-anticipated plan to not proceed with the extreme end of Obama-era rules tightening motor vehicle fuel efficiency standards, which would have driven up...
...implying that “leaves of full-glacial trees had extremely low calculated ci values (averaging 113 ppm) that were 25% lower than in leaves of postglacial trees (ci of 150 ppm between...
...extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.... Assertions of island vulnerability are based on outputs from flood risk models that simulate sea level rise on present day island topography...
...of urgency. The [research] collective is trying to keep pace with a well-funded and extremely motivated foe: mining companies. Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s dogged support of mineral extraction has led...
...instead quoted an NOAA scientist that “We need another dictionary to help us describe how these extremes continue to play out and unfold year after year”, instead of asking who...
...times. Finally, more settled science: “State-of-the-art climate models drastically underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming, according to a study published Monday that signals a future of more...
...incidents are extremely unusual. At least in the developed world, where high construction standards both legal and moral mean very few buildings collapse. Miami, for instance, has a lot of...
...know where they are, “The world has a coffee surplus and production is extremely robust.” And for anyone not given to curiosity about the globalized contents of their bowls, plates...
...simply are not on the extreme upward course the IPCC keeps claiming, and that means neither are climate damages. The data come from a useful tool provided by Resources for...
...delights him. And reinforces his belief in uncritically swallowing the most extreme predictions by people who don’t know what the science actually says. Dude, the Enlightenment. You’re tipping it over....
...extremely unscientific. (Including Scientific American deciding the asteroid theory doesn’t explain the other mass extinctions and, for good measure, not the one 65 million years ago either; in all cases...
...for some people. As Miner recounts: “A friend sat with me and explained that she had just recovered from an episode of extreme climate grief brought about by studying rapidly...
[CDN Note: The CO2Science archive is extremely deep and sometimes we present older studies that remain timely and relevant, given that ideas that stand the test of time are the...
Last week we noted an IRPP puff piece on renewable energy that breezed dogmatically past the extremely formidable engineering and physics obstacles and recommended massive electrification of major economies while...
...climate lockdown…. But now we’ve all seen proof that the kind of extreme cutbacks greens are proposing as part of a permanent solution to climate change don’t make a lot...
...National Climate Assessment in 2018, itself a strained compilation of extreme worst-case scenarios that still couldn’t deliver the desired global meltdown.” Then he lists scientists who have finally had it...
...world “less tolerable to humanity, with greater climate extremes”, according to the study led by Hansen, the former Nasa scientist who issued a foundational warning about climate change to the...
...here of which his audience is now more aware than ever: Mann is himself extremely rude and mean-spirited in his commentary, and a massive lawsuit against someone who criticized him...
...we’re all going to die it’s liable to conjure up images of a vast network of extremely sophisticated, densely packed sensors, possibly waaaaay up in space, and scientists scrutinizing them...
...Biden was, we feel obliged to point out, vice-president for eight years under the extremely talented and energetic Barack Obama, and between then they didn’t apparently get these things done....
...a mystery: “The findings are ‘extremely exciting and unexpected, especially since Neptune’s previous period of low cloud activity was not nearly as dramatic and prolonged,’ [study lead author Erandi] Chavez...
...also subject to a number of limitations. They typically do not adequately account for all sources of risk, including low probability high impact events, sea-level rise, extreme events and societal...
...repeat that we are not fans of disruptive protests under all but the most extreme circumstances, and suspect that the typical protest including by farmers contains a strong element of...
...cold is merely weather (and also only happens in “snaps”, never waves or domes) it’s also yet another by-product of warming. The story added that “As the climate changes, he...
...“The researchers based their projections on the emissions from stovetops from 53 homes across California” might have brought to mind phrases like “not very robust finding” and “extremely small sample”....
...interests, which will go a long way.” The question, we would add, is whether industry leaders will also finally start publicly questioning at least some of the more ludicrous extremes...
...of context. You fiddle data in order to jeer at people. You tell people normal weather extremes are their fault. You terrify children so badly they need drugs to cope,...
...on temperature extremes and cardiorespiratory deaths. Yes, it said, heat episodes can be fatal, accounting for barely 0.4 percent, as in four per thousand, of deaths in the US due...
...la vie but ce n’est pas conditions météorologiques extrêmes. Despite which if you buy beachfront property in the path of Atlantic tropic storms, you should know by now what you're...
...uncertain whether past changes in Atlantic TC activity are outside the range of natural variability.” And one reason why is that Atlantic hurricanes are extremely variable annually and decadally and...
...published this month in the journal Transportation Research called climate change an “existential threat” to public transit in Boston: Given the expected rate of rising sea waters, an extremely strong...
...is extremely important that urbanization-induced warming -- which can be a full order of magnitude greater than the background trend being sought -- be removed from the original temperature records...
...below the long-term average. This remarkable run of unusually cool weather was linked to extreme oceanic conditions that prevailed over the same time period. As they describe it, “in less...
...model ocean currents very well. Convection is extremely difficult to model, you’re dealing with a turbulent process, the equations are very complicated and no one can model that very well....
...We are moving full steam ahead with an ambitious climate plan.” But outside the suffocating world of computer models and press releases it’s extremely important that they don’t know what...
Climate Home News is all sad that the latest extreme UN call to shut down everything to save the planet has not been warmly embraced at a practical level. See,...
...from 1921? Do they have data on its behaviour before 1850? No. Of course not. Air currents like ocean currents are extremely complex, non-linear phenomena. Plus if you plow far...
...period, when climate normals were first calculated, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That means it’s getting wetter, but not snowier, with 80 percent of weather stations seeing...
...but rather than making a prudent transition we should leap into the freezing dark. Just as so many of them are irrationally hostile to the extremely low GHG, reliable base...
...Guardian, George Monbiot or his headline writer says “Make extreme wealth extinct: it’s the only way to avoid climate breakdown”. Which is the kind of thing that can fuel paranoia...
...ARs occur throughout extratropical and polar regions (--) and are often associated with locally-heavy precipitation, including a substantial fraction of all midlatitude extreme precipitation events (--). ARs also affect East...
...are extremely rare in large part because it is very hard to do something sinister on a grand scale while keeping it secret. To be blunt, paranoia is far more...
...widespread ecosystem destruction in consequence of skyrocketing temperatures and increasing weather extremes. Fast forward to the present and science has largely rebutted all of the alarmist projections in this regard....
...Pole by now.” Instead even in grudgingly acknowledging it CNN kicks off its story “In a year of extreme heat, Antarctica’s last six months were the coldest on record.” Meanwhile,...
...lead Philippine delegate Yeb Sano declared “What my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate event is madness, the climate crisis is madness. We can stop...
For some reason the claim that Miami is going under is trending again. Unlike the reality. Indeed the whole notion of accelerating sea level rise is under extreme downward pressure,...
In the midst of the climate crisis, with warming turning to heating to extreme heating, you might be caught off-guard by the news that there has been no boring old-fashioned...
...extremely sudden start and end of the Younger Dryas, he observes, rules out the customary orbital explanation for glaciation cycles, the “slow, Croll-Milankovitch orbital forcing, which occurs over many tens...
...in 2017 than they were in 2014.” The story of course blamed the bleaching on global warming, saying Coral bleaching is a common response to extreme heat stress, and global...
...by that date if not 2050 there may be other guesses. It’s also a fact that Africa’s population is increasingly escaping extreme poverty, which to some people, especially Malthusians, means...
...António Guterres, who recently claimed that “The number of weather, climate and water-related disasters has increased by a factor of five over the past 50 years.” Climate scientist Roger Pielke...
...stunning. Despite experiencing the most intense bleaching event ever recorded in the South Atlantic, no more than 2% mortality occurred in M. hispida populations, which extremely low mortality rate according...
...Mar offers an interesting defence of its position: too many people want to live in the allegedly soon-to-be flooded lands and the city can’t afford to buy any. “The extremely...
...continually told that heatwaves are increasing, extreme heat events becoming more common and so on, and indeed that it is precisely because of rising temperatures that formerly unusual events are...
...mind wonderfully. As this summer of catastrophic weather events and raging infernos reaches its midway point – it’s only half over! – you can’t help noticing the shift in the...
...NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which publishes an annual estimate of temperatures over the continental United States, derived from a large network of weather stations all across the country....
...of wide-spread weather station data records for relatively local areas, rather than on analysis of multi-decadal global, hemispheric and the main agricultural countries’ drought assessments.” So the authors decided it...
...York Times that “we must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years”. And of course, Ehrlich is the...
...story expires with one last gory upheaval: “On land, Australia's climate crisis has led to raging bush fires, extreme heatwaves, and one of the worst droughts on record. But it...
...cut human CO2 emissions significantly is to cut our fossil fuel use significantly, which is extremely painful because fossil fuels provide most of the energy we use worldwide. Sulphur scrubbers...
...widespread ecosystem destruction in consequence of skyrocketing temperatures and increasing weather extremes. Fast forward to the present and science has largely rebutted all of the alarmist projections in this regard....
...uncritical endorsement of the way he said it, or his habitual views of the world. But the fact that Michael Mann has suddenly said something extremely offensive might lead one...
...is going to happen “by 2030” if we do not adopt extreme measures to combat global warming. But almost none about 2029 or 2031. And without any accounting for why...
...significantly better than random series generated independently of temperature. Furthermore, various model specifications that perform similarly at predicting temperature produce extremely different historical backcasts. Finally, the proxies seem unable to...
...article abstract concludes, “We explore strategies for communicating extreme forecasts that are mindful of these results.” Like, dare we say, not babbling ludicrous inanities? Actually yes, although at this point...
We have talked previously about the extreme difficulties of modelling clouds, and why it is a problem for the science-is-settled crowd since clouds strongly influence the climate. A change of...
...swamped by rising seas… insurance premiums are poised to rise dramatically, making home insurance unaffordable for many Canadians. Extreme heat puts Canadians’ health at risk, especially for children, elderly, and...
...fragile rubbish is this ecosystem anyway? NBC says “the analysis is a reminder that the pace of change on Earth today may be comparable to the most extreme events in...
...increase at the global scale remains very low” (which doesn’t mean they believe it but need more evidence, it means on the evidence they think it’s extremely unlikely to be...
...increases in energy efficiency include a crucial point we’ve made before: “developed societies are also much better equipped to respond to climate extremes and natural disasters. That’s why natural disasters...
We recently came across a record of precipitation in Germany since 1881 courtesy of NoTricksZone. And widespread insistence that this summer’s extreme dryness is totally unprecedented und weitere Beweise der...
...from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to both latitudinal extremes of the eastern Newfoundland shelf,” as Halfar et al. (2011) describe it, they generated “a 115-year-long growth-increment-width based record of...
...planet came into balance”. Which is true of their more extreme scenarios despite the doesn’t-fit-the-known-facts issue mentioned above. But now “in at least eight of the next-generation models, produced by...
...of tropical cyclone data by conflating instances and occurrences, the new Synthesis went further and simply invented an attribution claim out of nowhere: “Evidence of observed changes in extremes such...
...extremely heavy lift that would require, among other things, slashing emissions about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030. This is the origin of the common idea that we have...
...is required to mitigate and adapt to climate change is extremely difficult to achieve, largely due to socio-ideological biases that perpetuate polarization over climate change. Because climate change perceptions in...
...and the models until it’s silenced. (Thus we’re gratified that NASA now admits that “All weather on Earth, from the surface of the planet out into space, begins with the...
...said “Pharaoh Schmaraoh” because the weather forecasters got the high tide wrong so nobody raised its staff. The idea is that they raise the barrier if the tide gets to...
...and its weather have changed over time) that: “We are in a remarkably cool period if we look over the last 550 million years. In fact, only one other time...
...those things into their forecasts of what weather to expect. Still, at least the city declared an emergency before declaring an emergency. So now it will do what cities do...
...they do most issues as temperatures have reached record highs and the number of weather-related disasters continues to rise. Yet research suggests the learning materials students are consuming in school...
...in fact it would be very surprising if it weren't occurring. And even with urbanization biases, as our tour through weatherstats.ca shows, there has been remarkably little measured climate change...
...record, of course what you find is that the only thing that’s unprecedented here is the abandon with which supposedly reputable outfits make absurd claims about the weather in pursuit...
...(“NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS WR-289/ A Century of Weather in Death Valley, CA: 1911-2011 published January 2013”) goes further and provides a table of the hottest recorded temperatures by month...
...behind climate models’ confident projections of how the weather will change? It’s simple, all right: they guess. Specifically, a recent study in the journal Atmospheric Research notes, cloud physics operates...
...a combination of factors, not just the increase in heat. Further investigation is required to understand this fully, including more deaths being registered.” So, during the days with warm weather...
Speaking of irresponsible nihilism, Euronews.green declares with delight that “The war on Ukraine ‘may be seen as a blessing’ from a climate perspective, says the head of the UN weather...
...intervals? There is also the conspicuous matter that Greenland weather data shows temperatures nowadays are about the same as they were in the 1930s. And, miraculously, the ice cap didn't...
...rained there before, or went dry. The Weather Channel, in an unguarded moment, admits that the rain was good, captioning a pretty picture: “A woman sets off on her zipline...
...brings us back to Barmby, Smith and sunspots. Since the Little Ice Age, people have noticed that solar activity fluctuates, and that those fluctuations affect weather conditions on Earth. How...
...to show up. The temperature chart back to 1954 says it all: if you're in Sudbury hoping for warmer weather, you've got a long wait ahead of you. Nor does...
...the house by burning fossil fuels to cool it or warm it as the weather requires, to make cement for our foundations, and also to turn them directly into spray...
...one where journalists rant on about “droughts, floods and cyclones hitting them left and right” without doing basic research on changing weather patterns. That one leaves a truly bitter taste....
...too late. According to weatherstats.ca, Toronto average daytime highs hit their all time peak of 38.3 C back in 1948. Since then? See for yourself: If you look closely you...
...satellites and weather balloons. Both studies reviewed a long list of models (38 in one case and 48 in the other--why so many climate models if the science is settled?)...
...the peer-reviewed empirically-grounded forecasts and just ignore your electricity bill. Also last week we snarked that the cost of major Canadian infrastructure programs tends “to skyrocket regardless of the weather.”...
...that “climate change” threatens to unleash America’s hazardous waste dumps because it makes weather as well as vermin worse.) Science doesn’t work that way. Nor does nature. Only shallow polemics....
...weather you’re after. February: March: Post-2014 February looked like January only a bit colder and 2017 didn’t have the jump that January did. As for March post-2014, the average high...
...the second, meaning a third of the experts in the study of weather patterns who replied didn’t think humans play a significant role in global warming, let alone a dominant...
...those your crops? And since in fact cold not warm conditions bring bad weather, we can also expect a bumper harvest of floods, hurricanes and droughts. Assuming, that is, we...
...winter kit for your car” just in case there’s, you know, cold weather and snow. (As, again, Spain just experienced with life-threatening effects.) But what about that study on which...
...while fixing the weather in her spare time. Those who thought her a star, or a saint, because she sounded good lamented that she had left because she still sounds...
...record (although even still, as we’ve seen, it doesn’t indicate nearly as much warming as models keep predicting). By contrast, this week’s study uses data from weather satellites that measure...
...decided to start over from scratch. One issue among the MSU analysts has been that there are weather balloon records for atmospheric temperatures from many parts of the world to...
...the bandwagon about removing CO2 from the air and stuffing it into the ground so we can get back to the ideal weather of, say, 1970, 1870 or whenever it...
...model. Everything that goes on that matters for weather and climate happens at such a microscopic scale it can never be properly observed, let alone programmed into a computer model,...
...airplanes. Rhinoceroses are not fleeing the Serengeti for the suburbs to get a break from the heat. Constant harping on trivial changes in weather distracts us from real lessons. For...
...1.1°C increase in the last 150 years has brought apocalyptically bad weather down on our heads. No. What really matters is that if 57°F “keeps life going” then it stands...
Greta Thunberg thinks warm weather is a crisis. And since she’s easily upset it’s a good thing she doesn't realize her own country of Sweden used to be much hotter...
...variability in the models, not in the historical emission estimates). The cyan lines outline the range of observed temperature changes in the surface climate data (T2m) and the weather satellite...
...fell when the weather warmed as supply expanded, and prices rose when it got cold and crops did less well. So unless you like scarce expensive food, warming wins. The...
...Canadian Arctic. And its temperatures since 1948 have not deviated from their pattern of getting very very cold in the winter. As always we are indebted to the website weatherstats.ca...
...and established enough to weather the storm, imagine the paralysing effect it has on less-well-known journalists, academics and even activists. The issue isn’t as one-sided as it looks from the...
...the popular fruit is the latest victim of a changing climate. It’s not cold weather causing the strawberries to shrink, but rather warmer temperatures. And as smaller strawberries take longer...
...in which the cold era of glaciation gave way to our present interglacial: “With milder weather humans began to emerge from their caves and, several thousand years ago, we see...
...just as colder weather caused crop failures in the 14th century. And the Plague of Justinian came during the colder Dark Ages that followed the Roman Warm Period. And the...
...to Lake Garda, Italy. She remembers climbing a tree loaded with sweet, ripe figs and eating them right off the branches.” Boo. Warm weather. Fig trees. It’s the apocalypse. No,...