...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...
...in uncertainty in regional projections of extreme precipitation. Future warming may amplify monsoonal extreme precipitation. Changes in extreme storms, including tropical/extratropical cyclones and severe convective storms, result in changes in...
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...
...precipitation events have higher confidence than shorter and more localized events, such as extreme storms, an aspect also relevant for determining the emergence of signals in extremes or the confidence...
...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...
...on a global level, an increase in extreme precipitation is observed for a limited number of stations and with strong regional differences. The absence of generalized growth trends in extreme...
...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...
...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...
...on the findings of Kumar et al. (2015), who focused their attention on the little-studied subject of wind extremes. So what, precisely, did they do? And what did they find?...
...homogeneous for trends analysis” in order to examine “temporal variability in the occurrence of the most extreme snowfall years, both those with abundant snowfall amounts and those lacking snowfall,” which...
...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...
...cold, moderate heat and extreme heat amount to respective percentages of 0.5, 14, 0.1 and 0. Thus, when combined (extreme and moderate cold versus extreme and moderate heat), deaths due...
...they think extreme precipitation might increase in the future, the observational record has not yet shown evidence of consistent changes in short-duration precipitation extremes across the country. And not long...
...out of touch with the science. This week’s bait: “Newsflash: warming isn’t making the climate ‘more extreme’. It’s probably making it less extreme. Anyone who says temperatures are getting more...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...‘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...
...recent droughts, “the 1540 drought was significantly more persistent and extreme in any single month except January, thus resulting in a severe annual number of days with precipitation deficit,” and...
...nimble originality had identified climate change as the culprit: “Climate change has already made extreme precipitation in California twice as likely, with extreme weather predicted to generate 200% to 400%...
...origin of increased temperature extremes would also be evident in long-term trends of extreme temperatures, but such trends do not exist.” Such trends do not exist. It is not happening...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
Last week we showed you data from the NOAA website that poured cold lack of water all over the idea that more and more of the US is experiencing extremely...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...year, Canadians in every region of the country were affected by extreme weather or climate events. They included destructive hurricanes, record flooding, snow storms, extreme cold, record heat, tornadoes, forest...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...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...
...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...
...power, size and unusually early appearance is giving meteorologists and climate experts yet more cause for concern about the routinization of extreme weather in an era of climate change.” And...
...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...
...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...
NOAA forecasts a long, hot summer in the United States. As Grist (slogan: “Climate. Justice. Solutions.”) put it, “Summer forecast: Extreme heat with a chance of rolling blackouts”. Now it’s...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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:...
...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/...
...“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...
...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...
...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...
...rising sea levels, the Thwaites glacier getting it and so forth. “Extreme heat also leads to crop failures and water shortages, and it supercharges wildfires: In California alone last year,...
...AP reported “Extreme cold grips Nordic countries as floods hit western Europe” illustrated by a massive snowstorm in Norway. (But no, there’s no prize for guessing that the story didn’t...
...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...
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...
...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...
...are worried about climate change – with 45 per cent being extremely or very worried, according to a study of 5,665 people by Ipsos MORI and the Centre for Climate...
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...
...temperatures are miserable, indeed extremely dangerous, especially when you don’t have reliable heating in your home, or indeed a home at all. “The 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Gansu Province around midnight....
...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...
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...
...“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?...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...“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...
...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...
...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...
...Atafona, a small town of some six thousand people, has long been prone to extreme erosion and is now exacerbated by climate change. Global warming is causing sea levels to...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...there’s the CNN headline, via MSN, that “Extreme heat is pushing India to the brink of ‘survivability.’” Now hang on. In the abstract, how would you tell whether a county...
...they were particularly affected because older women are most vulnerable to the extreme heat that is becoming more frequent.” And, presumably, especially if they are also Persons of Colour. Although...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...Canada and we’ve got the record wildfire season as well,’ said Nathan Gillett of Environment and Climate Change Canada. ‘Yes, it has been busy.’ Gillett heads the Rapid Extreme Event...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...Pacific Ocean, called El Nino, is supposed to make it even warmer. So what’s going on?” The usual, of course. See: “even in a warmer world extreme cold can happen....
...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...
...deaths around the world, and one of the most persistent findings is that extreme cold is more deadly than extreme heat. As a review in Environmental Health Perspectives put it,...
...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,...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...disaster. The link between global warming and extreme heat is more direct than, for example, with tornado clusters hitting the US.” Which is an interesting way of blaming recent American...
...minutes. So is it having more severe rainstorms, or not? In general more locations across Canada showed decreasing than increasing trends in extreme downpours up to 30 minutes, and the...
...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,...
...atmospheric rivers through the end of March: one extreme, six strong, 13 moderate and 11 weak. And other storms in between gave the Southern Sierra one of its wettest Marches...
...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...
...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...
...insurance company stopped writing new policies in California. That extreme weather, whether it be wind and storm or smoke and fire, is playing havoc on the insurance market is an...
...the fastest-warming season, leading to a trend in less snow overall. The East is also seeing more “yo-yo” winters of very snowy versus no snow at all because of extremes...
...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...
...a hysterical report claiming a billion children, nearly half of all youth on Earth, were at “extremely high risk” from climate change, which someone immediately threw in our faces online....
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Plus extreme rainfall went down in cities. Nevertheless to the CBC it’s the predictable horror show, and we must slash emissions now, though the new report helpfully says doing so...
...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...
...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...
...them. A shift in political tone around how to protect the planet is looming over EU Parliament elections in June, even as climate change unleashes more severe and costly extreme...
...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 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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...week away, but extreme winter conditions still persist on British Columbia’s southern and southeastern mountain passes as snowfall warnings are posted for most routes.” It got so hot that on...
...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...
...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:...
...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...
...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...
...research on the potential of geoengineering to reduce hazards, like extreme heat and sea-level rise,’ Christopher Trisos, a co-author of the study and the director of the Climate Risk Lab...
...“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...
...a temperate humid warm summer “means going from having large seasonal temperature differences with hot summers and cold winters to less extreme changes and more precipitation.” So if Toronto does...
...caused. A further 22 per cent of Canadians say the trend is natural.” And then it tells those dunces what to think. “In a nation ravaged by wildfire and extreme...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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,”...
...the end the only thing that melted was the headline. The story actually starts “Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees...
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...
...it is plausible that these extreme dust outbreaks will increase in frequency in the future.”“ In the popular press it’s even more tendentious. Thus, alas, in 2019 we heard “Climate...
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...
...the climate crisis and need more help.” And Erin O’Toole joined the bidding war, while Jagmeet Singh said “We are seeing the impacts of that crisis right now, with extreme...
...to account for their exaggerated claims.” We feel a bit hurt there. But when Lomborg says “The rhetoric on climate change has become ever more extreme and less moored to...
...collapse and abrupt changes in ocean circulation will occur. It says we are unlikely to experience the most extreme temperature increases projected in earlier studies, although we’re on track for...
...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...
...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...
...and that even if extreme emission-reducing steps were taken, it is now too late to save the region’s summer ice.” Too late? Apparently so. The Scientific American piece also says...
...the Lower 48, I have found myself bored as of late” even though supposedly climate change was causing extreme weather. And, he warns, “Now that spring is at our doorstep,...
...studies detailing this fact -- that extreme cold kills far more persons than extreme heat -- can be found by perusing the many reviews of the topic we [CO2Science] have...
...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...
...to Twitter. Back then a handful of major think tanks coordinated the policy battles. Now a handful of extreme populist movements (from the Yellow Jackets to Extinction Rebellion) dominate. Skeptics...
...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...
...of our vast forest. As for the subsequent “One thing is certain: More extreme smoke days are coming” we could have told her they promptly ended. But here’s the big...
...on the hook for billions of dollars in climate-related property losses as the government backs a growing number of mortgages on homes in the path of floods, fires and extreme...
...reporting. The IPCC bears much of the blame for its own misrepresentations. Its Summary for Policymakers includes such gems as “Human-induced climate change, including more frequent and intense extreme events,...
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...
...hurricane-force winds: Is climate change making Europe's extreme storms worse?” and answers by saying “Unsurprisingly, many across the UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and other storm-hit European countries this winter will...
...extreme rain events in Canada was pushing up insurance claims. Although the ombudsman did not side with Muir on every point, he slapped RCI down on the main one, saying...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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 –...
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...
...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)...
...were clear. Today, attribution studies can show whether extreme events were affected by climate change and whether they can be explained by natural variability alone. With rapid advances from research...
...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,...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...something fishy about the whole notion of carbon sequestration. It seems extremely arrogant to say hey guys, let’s fix the atmosphere. Or at least it does to people acquainted with...
...the early 1400s, more damaging storm surges attacked densely populated shorelines. On Aug 19, 1413, a great southerly storm at extreme low tide buried the small town of Forvie, near...
...you what the sophisticates at Economist HQ think of these sweaty, nay scorched rubes: “Americans are moving to places besieged by extreme heat”. Alas, the story said: “A recent study...
...And what has forest scientists increasingly uneasy is the quickening pulse of extreme events—fire, more powerful storms, insect infestations, and, most notably, severe heat and drought, which can worsen the...
...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...
...States is facing extreme heat and wildfire smoke in different regions. The two threats aren’t connected directly, but one factor is adding to their capacity to cause misery: climate change.”...
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...
...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”?...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...have a multitude of talents including musical) whereas climate science, the real stuff, is extremely interdisciplinary because the field is so broad. One might say complex, but chess positions are...
...better methodology could one ask for, “found 78% of respondents were extremely or fairly certain climate change is happening. But when asked to rank eight issues (climate change, healthcare, education,...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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...
...you’ll get. Possibly nothing. Here at CDN we are extremely skeptical that there is such a thing as a planetary thermostat, with CO2 or anything else being the “control knob”...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...drawbacks of our own colonialism that we ourselves discovered and emphasized, like the need to exercise extreme restraint in imposing our will on other people, today we’re seeing the rise...
...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...
...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...
...pattern in which the sun’s output was very high during the Medieval Warm Period, then fell to an extreme low point during the Little Ice Age, then ramped up again...
...innovative and productive fossil fuel industry helped produce the greatest increase in life expectancy, reduction in extreme poverty and so on the world has ever seen in the last century,...
...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,...
...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...
...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...
...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.”...
...it’s not just a question of extreme cold in New Brunswick in 2018, or in Eastern Europe in 2012, or in Asia in 2002-03. (Or indeed in Europe earlier this...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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.”...
...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...
...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...
...lose interest, leaving her lost and bewildered. More on the snow of end: “The Nova Scotia government is asking Ottawa for help as the province digs out from an ‘extreme...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...we had merch for guessing that, yes indeed, once again it’s the exploded RCP8.5 scenario. “When you think about that being the average temperature, that also means the extremes of...
...be bad and getting worse. Thus another expert “said climate change could drive an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme fire events that, in turn, could change the...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...a particular month tends to flip extremes. Check out July in Australia or January in Alaska. But not always. October in Europe was cooler than normal over much of the...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...John Robson: Do we see runaway warming, a greenhouse effect, extreme weather, crop failure? Do we see hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and droughts causing mass extinction? Coral reefs dying along with...
...2023 is turning out to be extremely cold in North America. Exactly as the global warming theory NG is normally all in on didn’t predict. As we have suggested, standard...
...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...
...and hurricanes wetter, and they increase the risk of severe flooding not only for coastal areas but inland communities as well. The Houston region could also see more extreme heat,...
...state-funded broadcaster notes that: “In an interview on Real Talk Ryan Jespersen, the host asked Smith how she reconciles her government's energy policies with experts linking this year's extreme fire...
...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...
...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...
...capital, but the country has now been hit by extreme weather for a third consecutive winter.” But see “Until Monday's snow, winter in Greece had been unusually mild so far...
...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.’…...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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...
[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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...in Central Canada means end in sight to extreme heat”. Aka “It will rain and cool off”. But where’s the fun in that version? (As with NBC’s “Fall on hold...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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.”...
...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?...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...answer. Here’s the answer: In this particular case, for these particular years, the averages were about the same but 1919 had more extreme events than 2019. Maybe it’s gnimraw labolg....
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...
...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...
...[a farmer] said extreme temperatures and fluctuations are becoming increasingly frequent and severe in his community and beyond” and farmers needed, of all things, subsidies. Meanwhile geoengineering a general cooling...
...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:...
...“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”....
...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...
...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,...
...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...
...in 10 years for the month of November. So has been the case in my country’s capital New Delhi where extreme winters have become a norm in recent years.” Energy...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...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...
...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...
...snow at his cabin in Bjurstrask, a tongue-twister just south of the Arctic Circle, smells “extremely clean” unlike the gunk in Solna or Philadelphia. And ice can also have a...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
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...
...reflects extreme, persistent heat waves in the Great Plains region during a period known as the ‘Dust Bowl.’ Poor land use practices and many years of intense drought contributed to...
...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...
...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...
...“Climate change is a concern to many people. But if the effect of extreme temperatures is not recorded, its full impact can never be understood. Death certification needs to be...
...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,...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...cold extremes in North America, Northern Europe or Northern Asia. So the record-busting cold over North America is not proof of global warming, nor in fairness is it proof against...
...“[The] ability of societies to prepare for and recover from extreme events is a remarkable story of policy success — deaths related to disasters have plummeted from millions per year...
...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...
...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...
...nations are extremely complex. They have to do with everything from automation to culture to really really bad policy in much of the Third World for many long sad decades....
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...
...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...
...“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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...even more extreme heat to hit tropical regions. Could. Not will. But don’t worry because there’s more certain uncertainty: “What scientists haven’t agreed on, however, is when the AMOC might...
...changes in precipitation, the British model, was the one that they chose also. So they chose the extreme models. And of course I wanted to see how well they worked....
...onwards. The results are summarized in this diagram: The three colours represent three drought categories: exceptional (red), extreme or worse (pink) and severe or worse (yellow). The top two rows...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...if extreme heat leads to droughts, this top wine producer’s future may be at risk.” To which our first response is to deride the “may be at risk” as an...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...all.” (His italics.) So of course (drum roll please) we then get “there is a credible body of scientific literature that finds that extreme snowfall events may be connected to...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...with labour shortages, soaring energy costs, inflation, supply chain issues and climate change.” Climate change? Oh yeah: “Extreme weather has only added to these struggles. The UK has faced abnormally...
...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...
...‘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...
...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...
...Council of Texas tried. NBC later said “Extreme heat has one of the strongest correlations to the warming temperatures due to climate change. Heat waves are lasting longer and becoming...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...complete until I show up. Nevertheless the rhetorical temperature continues to rise exponentially. National Geographic warns that “As climate change brings more extreme heat, air conditioning use is going to...