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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
...informing Americans about the grave perils of climate change in dozens of assessments, reports and special studies since 2000. This prodigious output includes four full-scale multi-volume National Assessment Reports, with...
...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...
...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...
...seen in floods, fires and drought around the globe”. And Canada’s ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Climate Change and Climate Change hollered: “Canadians are increasingly experiencing record-breaking extreme weather...
...impossible without burning fossil fuels are becoming the new extreme, scientists say, while extremes are becoming the new unusual.” So scientists already know what scientists won’t know for a week....
...is due to “extreme weather”? How about “extreme optimism” and “extreme unreality” blowing in from Balnibarbi? Including one of the Democrat commissioners saying “On top of all of this, extreme...
...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....
...know why the heatwave was so extreme, and whether the method they used, called Generalized Extreme Value or GEV analysis, actually works. They even admitted that the weather conditions giving...
...at the global level. Roger Pielke Junior is an expert on climate and weather trends at Colorado State University. His research shows that global weather-related disaster losses as a share...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...emissions, the better off we’ll all be.” As we noted last week, when the ferocious Tropical Storm Henri failed to make landfall as a hurricane in New England, the New...
...wacky weather stories into dreary polemics in the 2024 edition by saying “With each year, Canada sees the impacts of climate change on weather events, making many extreme weather events...
...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...
...to global warming), or reduced water temperatures”. Still, in the wacky world of climate, all news is bad news. Hence this assessment from Bar-Ilan University, via EurekAlert! in 2021: Narrator:...
...doesn’t really count as a lie since everybody knew they were lying, they knew we knew, and we knew they knew we knew. But notwithstanding all the lying they should...
...Hindukush, Pakistan (2000-2016). Panel (a): trends in mean monthly SCA. Panel (b): trends in SCA during snow accumulation and snowmelt periods. Panel (c): trends in the mean annual temperature (Tavg)...
...write that “projected extreme winds from GCMs exhibit statistically less significant trends compared to the historical reference period,” further noting that “a decline in the magnitude of mean and strong...
...in the 2017 US Climate Science Special Report (part of the National Climate Assessment) that appears to show a dramatic increase in the rate of weather extremes in the US...
...a victory dance over it: “About 8 in 10 U.S. adults say they have experienced some kind of extreme weather in recent years, according to a new poll from The...
...sure enough, the CTV story presents a totally unbiased and disinterested assessment of the fact that “Extreme weather events are going to get more extreme going forward” from the totally...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...that has been hitting New England and other states. Many in New England woke up to neighborhoods blanketed in white Wednesday morning with 3 feet of snow recorded in Moriah,...
...it as a legal weapon to shut down the energy industry. Wait, you cry. Don’t scientists invent new methods and new fields of study to discover the truth whatever it...
...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...
...country what the public should know about extreme heat.” And “A hot new base line” with heatwaves of yore just weather but this one climate certainly for sure definitely no...
...in New York City. A freak deep freeze in February had taken them out across New York State and other parts of the Northeast, buds shriveling on the branch as...
...Figure 1b-e, large discrepancies between models and observations exist when comparing snow cover trends by season. For spring and summer, the observed trends in snow cover decline were much stronger...
...Report on Weather Extremes, or SREX. It was a follow up to the 4th Assessment Report or AR4, and it was followed a year later by the 5th Assessment Report...
...another of theirs, “10 Facts About How Nature Adapts to Extreme Weather/ Discover the incredible ways nature bends and flexes to survive extreme weather! 🌍✨ These amazing adaptations highlight the...
...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...
...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...
...backbone and no principles.” He takes particular aim at an Op Ed in the New York Daily News, whose circulation collapsed from over two million in the post-World War II...
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...
...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...
...‘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...
...a news story that leads with “Worldwide and rapid trends towards a mini Ice Age are emerging from the first long term analyses of satellite weather pictures”. But we will...
...lifts the lid on the modern alchemy of attributing individual weather events to greenhouse gases. And while we would be more than somewhat doubtful about the validity of this new...
...economic damage compared to other types of extreme weather. If you want to know more about the shady science of heat waves be sure to check out our new video...
...the Tass news agency said. The storms were part of a weather system that created blizzard-like conditions in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria and Serbia on Sunday, dumping snow and causing power...
...Wednesday was a harsh -27 degrees Fahrenheit (-32 C) in Davis, West Virginia, according to the National Weather Service.” But weather, weather everywhere, and not a climate to cite. Others...
...they needed until now, because: “As climate scientists, meteorologists and public health officials grapple with record-breaking temperatures, they’re also exploring new ways of measuring extreme heat and new ways of...
...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...
...1966 paralyzed much of the east from Alabama to New England. Over 100 inches of snow fell in 5 days around Oswego New York.” And yet, he added, “Climate extremists...
And boy was it big. The news in question is that a new United Nations report, this one from UNEP rather than the UNCCCP or some such entity (actually UNFCCC)...
...appear to be detectable trends in short-duration extreme precipitation in Canada for the country as a whole based on available station data. More stations have experienced an increase than a...
...3: 3: The IPCC denies a connection between greenhouse gases and most types of extreme weather. John Robson: Here we reach a large topic on which we at CDN have...
In mid-December the New York Times reported that “Survivors Face Subzero Temperatures After Quake Kills Over 120 in China”. Knowing how the Times considers any news of warm weather as...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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 Royal New Zealand Navy and the New Zealand Army.” Where exactly it plans to transport the New Zealand Army to is not obvious. And while we do not wish...
...out, but otherwise verbatim, starting with its summary statement: “the assessment of observed trends in the magnitude of runoff, streamflow, and flooding remains challenging, due to the spatial heterogeneity of...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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 to provide further evidence for the validity of this conclusion, they go on in this – their newest study – to “confirm these findings in a larger, European context.”...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...every news outlet clangs in the aftermath of a weather disaster, such as the New York Times (“European Floods Are Latest Sign of a Global Warming Crisis”) or NBC news...
...to their great credit, wrote a letter to the editor of the journal that published their paper and said “When we add these new years to the previous results, the...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...For instance Weather Fox, from a network we’d been led to believe was prone to right-wing distortions of reality, explains/inquires “Why U.S. Thunderstorms Are Becoming More Extreme?” And you just...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...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...
...the help of an alarmist mayor. You knew someone would and they were a good candidate. And Global News also recited that: “Experts are warning that extreme weather events are...
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...
...or at least New South Wales is, and you guessed it. All climate change all the time and all your fault. New Scientist charges in as well, describing the flooding...
...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...
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...
...activity in the U.S. is trending down, not up as the alarmists claim without checking. Specifically the IPCC’s latest “Assessment Report”, called AR6 for short, said: “Observed trends in severe...
...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...
...brunt of the extreme winter weather.” OK, so what’s with the dreaded warming? Well, the piece goes on for a while about how weird stuff is happening weirdly: “The polar...
...not prepared for the rapidly growing climate risks it faces, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has said in its first risk assessment. From wildfires burning down homes to violent weather...
...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...
...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...
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...
...deniers little better than Flat Earthers. But when it comes to the supposed link between a warming planet and increases in extreme weather, including new New Brunswick Liberal leader Kevin...
...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...
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...
...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...
...The Conversation offering a “Welcome to the new abnormal” had the gall to claim that: “The most recent international climate assessment from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
No, really. We say so, being tired of unfounded hysteria about trends in weather, preposterous claims of measuring temperature globally to two decimal places even today let alone long ago,...
...a newly published paper on this topic, Lynch et al. (2020) present a detailed overview of this “heat hypothesis” in which warming temperatures are postulated to produce more crime. In...
...U.S. emissions in half by 2030 as part of Paris climate pact”. And the New York Times news department high-fives him too: “In a show of renewed commitment after four...
...or not. It’s suddenly trendy. And it’s not a new or fringe idea. Back in September 2022 Newsweek asked “Could Refreezing North and South Poles Reverse Global Warming?” That nobody...
...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...
...Prime Minister of New Zealand who stepped in when Jacinda Ardern collapsed with “Canada and New Zealand enjoy a close relationship based on strong ties between our people, common values,...
...no new roads for the growing population” while a National Post headline complained “Steven Guilbeault’s latest command – no new roads for all the electric cars”, which is a particularly...
...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...
...of seven U.S. scientists employed a series of 11 offline and 13 fully coupled state-of-the-art Earth system models to reconstruct historical trends in GPP over the period 1901 to 2010....
...report "the variation in snow phenology in the large part of Eurasia is spatially heterogeneous," with some regions showing increasing trends, some showing decreasing trends, with the large majority of...
...to 300PPM.” A contemporary news clipping shows fears of 1,000 dead, far higher than from Helene. And Steve Milloy contributed the archival news there was devastating flooding in newly-afflicted Asheville,...
...are spreading faster, too.” Joe Biden’s “senior advisor for international climate policy”, John Podesta, yapped “As the unfolding disaster in California demonstrates, ‘these challenges from extreme weather events that are...
...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...
...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/...
...heat waves are going to be normal and we will see even stronger extremes.’” And speaking of scorched, one news outlet jumped on the Pearl Jam story to holler that...
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...
...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...
...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...
...above the 1991-2020 average of 14 per year. On Wednesday, the Weather Channel upped the ante with a new estimate of 24 named storms. AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Forecaster Alex DaSilva...
...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...
In Part 2 of our tour of the new Clintel Analysis of the IPCC AR6 Report we summarize their look at the IPCC’s latest hockey stick. CDN readers know that...
...was all for Idalia as major disaster: “Some 20 million Americans woke up on Monday to the news that they have just one full day to prepare for Tropical Storm...
...bad weather but also was not: “as the wall was being built, human-caused climate change was getting under way, piling new heat and energy into the global climate system which...
...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...
In the National Post Rex Murphy lowers the boom on the new American left’s “Green New Deal”, crediting Ocasio-Cortez for being “a Greener who says what is on the Green...
...study day in and day out. The science went this way so it didn’t make the news. But it is news, and it’s good news. Steam, butter and share accordingly....
...instead of once. And, Somini Sengupta, the Times’s global climate correspondent, will be your new guide to the latest news and ideas as the newsletter’s lead writer. Please stay tuned...
As British voters on July 4 gave a large parliamentary majority to a new New Labour party, they were given immediate grounds for wondering what they’d gotten themselves into. News...
...into the larger topic of precipitation trends, and specifically questions related to trends in snowfall, rainfall, droughts, flooding and wildfires. Here Koonin makes a radical departure from just about every...
...linear trends of annual GPP during this time period. The inset in panel b presents the frequency distribution of pixel linear trends in annual GPP. Source: Yao et al. (2018)....
...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...
...assessments of the IPCC and US National Climate Assessment. Why is this literature ignored? Misinformation on extreme weather and disasters sits out in plain sight, and is easily refuted –...
...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...
...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...
...say there were zero trends anywhere. But whenever data are highly variable you get apparent trends, even with coin flips, just as in a trackless forest you find things that...
On the subject of expecting the unexpected, a recent piece “It’s Later Than You Think: Climate Fueled Extreme Weather, Part 3” by Roger Pielke Jr. addresses the somewhat recondite mathematical...
...for Buffalo because the weather is so much better. “The question of ‘climate havens’ – places where extreme weather events are rare and which tend to be located in the...
...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...
...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....
...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,...
...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...
...(Which also raises the question how seriously ordinary people take claims that we live in a period of relentless extreme weather disasters or, as the New York Times chortled, “Climate...
...data by weather type. Here’s drought: Here are floods: Here are storms: You get the idea. To be fair, there is one indicator trending up, and it’s extreme temperatures: But...
The climate “crisis” in a nutshell: Reuters “Sustainable Switch” emails “African leaders called this week for rich countries to commit record contributions to new financing, amid rising extreme weather events...
...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...
...tourist industry and New South Wales, Australia, may actually have a white Christmas albeit not at sea level. As for the United States, well, imagine the news stories about climate...
...have been news to some, including those who report the news. But if you followed the skeptical blogosphere you knew a decade ago that a fungus was the likely culprit....
...must point out, yet again, that while all sorts of weather extremes are inconvenient, unpleasant and even dangerous, cold remains more deadly than heat, especially if the power goes out....
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...
...in New York City, followed by the UN Climate Ambition Summit on September 20, 2023 in New York City, along with, as the New York Times “Climate Forward” boasted, “A...
No skyscrapers for you New York City mayor Bill de Blasio just struck a mighty blow against his own city, if not climate change, by banning the construction of glass-and-steel...
...75%. Why aren’t they? Well, the Times comes clean to its readers. They cost way too much: “An assortment of recent obstacles to projects in New York, New Jersey and...
...snidely that “hitting its climate goals will require a total reversal of New Zealand’s current trajectory. New Zealand is one of the world’s worst performers on emission increases. Its emissions...
The New York Times “Climate Forward” tells us triumphantly that “Biden Administration Issues Rules Aimed at Phasing Out Gas Cars/ The regulations, designed to ensure that most new cars and...
...gas operations; developing rigorous new fuel economy standards aimed at ensuring 100 per cent of new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be zero emissions and annual improvements for...
...going to zero in 2050 that Newfoundland’s minister should be fantasizing over. Here’s something to chew on: Newfoundland itself might not be around in 2050. There might not be a...
...Canary Media starts rather gloomily that “The Biden administration is poised to propose new regulations for coal- and gas-burning power plants, which could breathe new life into a long-beleaguered technology.”...
...that we honestly doubt some of this language means anything. For instance “Successive IPCC reports have given assessments of the level of anthropogenic global warming, but no equivalent assessment of...
...poor siting of the instrumentation to measure temperatures, the influence of trends in surface air water vapor content on temperature trends, the quantification of uncertainties in the homogenization of surface...
We really mean it this time, you’re not supposed to be reading these dangerous, subversive authors. Think of the implications. This week the topic is trends in natural disasters. Which...
...East. A detailed assessment of the recent regional precipitation trends using the same datasets can be found in the Atlas. Global trends for 1980–2019 show a general increase in annual...
From CO2Science: A paper published in Global Change Biology by Prodon et al. examined an animal phenology database containing more than 50,000 observations to analyze trends in the date of...
...category/direction are depicted in Figure 1. The most striking feature of the accompanying figure is the domination of green shading, indicative of monotonic increasing trends and positive reversal trends, both...
...arrived. If some clown in a newsroom were to entertain their colleagues by a wacky check of, say, the latest IPCC Assessment Report, they’d find this sort of soporific prose:...
...Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR6, 2021) published in 2021 indicates that there is no clear positive trend in extreme precipitation events, except under the most extreme scenario (RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5),...
...herd of independent minds again) are involved with the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report whose excellence they find so excellent. This new attitude toward authority among those who think they have...
...on several occasions that Environment and Climate Change Canada cannot find evidence of increasing trends in Canadian extreme precipitation, nor have other researchers looking at the US and elsewhere. But...
...red dots show the size of the model warming trends and the blue line is the observed warming trend. All the high-ECS and medium-ECS trends are above the observed trend....
...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...
...or less evenly ever since including in the last 50 years. So there is nothing new about a gentle rise in the oceans, and no new surge either. (There are...
...so the mystery here is: Why didn’t they realize that having this lovely word already in their vocabulary was a tipoff that they had this rather less lovely weather on...
...“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...
...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...
...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,...
...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...
...Urban Heat Island effect and then, as if it weren’t enough of a downer already, “Chapter 4: Extreme Weather and Weather-Related Disasters Are Not Getting Worse”. From droughts to cyclones...
...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...
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...
...the climate emergency. You may have missed that they just released Volume II of their 6th Assessment Report called “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” since, Climate Home News...
...Minister and Premier of British Columbia announce new committee to address extreme weather and climate resilience in the province”. Oh really? What prompted you to get onto that issue? That...
...Sharon Kimathi complained in the newsletter about “influential newspapers in Switzerland” that: “criticized the climate change ruling against the Swiss government, saying it risked undermining democracy and the political clout...
...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...
...and wildfires. We are taking measures to make Canadians safer by providing better early warnings of extreme weather events, and we’re also tackling the emissions that are fueling climate extremes.”...
...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....
...1895.” Moreover, CFACT contributed on Thursday June 19, 2024 that: “In spite of claims which you might hear from the news media this week, extreme heat is not on the...
...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...
...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...
...from the journals down through the news media to ensure that the public only hears bad news about climate and the conclusion is always that we need more aggressive state...
...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...
...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,...
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....
...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...
...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...
...of red tape is the ticket back to intellectual and political credibility. Do they really think the average American voter will be thrilled that: “New documents reveal the extent of...
...fact-free finger pointing, mostly aimed at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom.” And in the New York Times David Wallace-Wells wrote that “In the end, President Trump’s...
The big story is, supposedly, COP28 gathering to bicker and waste time as a stirring prelude to COP29. But what’s this? The New York Times “Climate Forward” whimpers that “It’s...
We’re starting a new feature here at CDN where we take on some common truisms about global warming that everybody knows, which turn out to be wrong or misleading on...
...when the ferocious Tropical Storm Henri failed to make landfall as a hurricane in New England, nobody went “Oh yeah, not such a big deal.” Instead the New York Times...
...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...
...bigger tastier veggies, comes in a new peer-reviewed journal article, summarized by Patrick Michaels at Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. blog, showing that the rise in atmospheric CO2 has yielded a...
The current state of climate policy discussion furnishes more tentative confirmation of J. Budziszewski’s democracy-sustaining claim that people are logical, slowly. As long as the Green New Deal was some...
One politician who seems to have become exhausted by their efforts to remake the world through soothingly inspiring rhetoric is the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Jacinda Ardern just quit...
...beyond New York: Cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles are also confronting outbreaks.” Which makes it hard to ascribe to factors particular to New York including these famous...
In what the Manhattan Contrarian rightly labels “Comedy Gold,” a new climate fad is to signal one’s virtue by seeking psychological help to prevent a nervous breakdown over “the state...
...fossil fuel-powered electricity. Plus, there is a risk of more natural gas generation of electricity in the coming years in most provinces without new federal and provincial regulations.” Risk, you...
...period 1979-2014, Turner et al. (2016) reported a switch from warming during 1979-1997 to cooling thereafter (1999-2014). And now, in 2017, we have a third assessment of recent temperature trends...
...a scientist named James Kossin who insisted the IPCC proved it somewhere somehow: “It is extremely easy to show that. It is all there in black and white. There is...
...of the time period considered, and the role of biases in Sea Surface Temperature trends in contributing to this bias. Several studies since AR5 have continued to demonstrate an inconsistency...
...sea ice trends. The only negative trend witnessed is in the Bellingshausen-Amundsen Seas, where trends have become less negative in recent years due to advancements in sea ice extent occurring...
Most attention in popular climate discussions is focused on extreme weather, especially hurricanes, tornadoes and heavy rainstorms. So we turn this week to hurricanes that form in or near the...
...Terra and Aqua satellites, which they say allows for “a more consistent and comprehensive evaluation” of fire trends. Using such data, fire count numbers were derived from an active fire...
...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...
...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...
...700-page assessment prepared by a 10-agency consortium than we would in a brief report written by Sam and Pete down at the weather office. Weinkle’s paper reinforces this belief as...
...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...
...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...
...“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?...
Professor Nicola Scaffeta of the University of Naples Department of Earth Sciences has just published a detailed, peer-reviewed assessment of the latest generation of global climate models. He begins by...
...the New York Times gushes: “To climate scientists, it comes as no surprise that unabated emissions of greenhouse gases caused global warming to reach new highs. What researchers are still...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...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...
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...
...new ways to communicate the risks of extreme temperatures…. More than a week ago, temperature records were set in Mississippi and Texas, after conditions reached nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit in...
...they see. Not climate breakdown, not unprecedented weather, and certainly not a warm winter. They see dangerously high energy prices. As a story in news.co.uk just whined, “Climate change: UK...
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...
...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...
...calls it the ‘most extreme event’ in climate history… ‘Thousands of records are being brutalized all over Asia, which is by far the most extreme event in world climatic history,’...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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....
...events are ignored or dismissed as “weather", and when the warm events turn out not to have happened the newspapers don’t run big headlines saying “Sorry, we panicked”. Are there...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...vast majority of affected humans, including the writer and their friends, are surviving without trouble, partly by taking breaks in warmer places than where they live. Or the New York...
...for the recent warming seen over the past 100 years, new research suggests. In one of three new studies published in the journals Nature and Nature Geoscience, researchers found that...
...it was elected in 2018 and until recently was reluctant to risk driving up energy prices by making new investments in renewables. Six years later, we’re in a new economic...
...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...
...issue a number of times recently, including people claiming something called “climate change” is making the weather different instead of grasping that the weather becoming different, for better, worse or...
...suggest that if it “isn’t working”, and is instead offending people, it must have something to do with not accomplishing its general purpose of fixing the weather while making us...
...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...
...all-news-is-bad-news landing: “as Alejandra Borunda writes for us, when University of Nebraska researchers recently analyzed how yields have improved in that Corn Belt state since 2005, they reached a surprising...
Referring to the horrific condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida NBC news noted “Local officials appeared to have few ideas so far about what may have caused the 136-unit building to...
...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...
Another major leap forward into fantasy from the Deep Ecologists. In response to criticism from Jonah Goldberg of the prohibitive cost of the Green New Deal (and now would not...
...are disturbingly prone to burst savagely into flames. As JoNova recently pointed out, six people have died in New York in 2022 alone in house fires started by humble e-bikes....
...consequential impacts”) and what you find usually isn’t pretty. New Zealand is. But even those who have watched The Lord of the Rings, several times, may not grasp that New...
...easy. But stay tuned because “New research Pettit presented to a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans suggests the final collapse of the ice shelf may occur...
...helping to reduce emissions and develop new, cleaner technologies and energy sources.” The strategy of borrowing the alarmists’ slogans and conceding their assumptions then hoping everyone will somehow nevertheless come...
...more effective than lumbering dinosaur fossil fuels, and they still do, like so many people indignantly lecturing us on social media. Consider this news story from the Guardian in late...
...mere planet seems incapable of: get a lot hotter. Yes, the new 6th-generation suite of climate models apparently has some impressive new tweaks and features, such as being able to...
...or other new energy capacity”. And if they had some working batteries we could definitely add them along with other capacity… if I had some working new energy capacity, whatever...
...when it’s climate alarmism they’re suddenly wishing he’d wave his sceptre. It turns out that the new Prince of Wales, William, did attend Climate Week in New York. Though we...
...grids. That’s the warning from a new report that finds there will be truly massive future power needs for EV charging in New York and Massachusetts, two states that have...
...not write headlines, for better or worse, the CBC nailed it with this one “U.S. climate summit: Canada needs new and better policies, not another round of target bingo”. Bingo...
According to [news source] an [iconic thing] in [an iconic place] is going to get it because of climate change. Fill in the blanks and reprint as needed. This time...
The New York Times warns us that “Home Insurance Rates in America Are Wildly Distorted. Here’s Why. Climate change is driving rates higher, but not always in areas with the...
...better by absorbing CO2 more efficiently, so both existing and new plants draw more of it from the air. When there’s less CO2, plants die back and less CO2 is...
...pensions are among the biggest shareholders in a modern economy. In this case the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York,...
...And at the heart of the problem are the various official “assessment reports”, which Koonin says present a summary “spin” inconsistent with their own findings, and of the underlying research....
...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...
...big topics of the day, especially apocalyptic extreme weather and the like. Last week it was precipitation and this week it’s floods. The new report begins its discussion in Section...
...about wildfires (which you can see collected at this link). Our assessment of his statement: Likely True. A scientific paper on global wildfire measurement published in 2016 gives not only...
...has remained elusive, as multiple historical studies have revealed there has been no long-term change in drought trends over the modern era of rising CO2 (see, for example, the many...
...troposphere and stratosphere. * Models failed to predict the divergence of Arctic and midlatitude winter temperature trends. * Models fail to reproduce Northern Hemisphere snow cover trends. * Most models...
...has elapsed since these two theses were put forth, enough time to sufficiently judge which prediction has been validated by real-world observational data. And the new evidence from satellite surveys...
...dust storms, nada: Finally coastal flooding trends are... zero: Not that any of this will stop the usual suspects from claiming what they want to claim to get the room...
...with clouds or that were of inferior quality, a total of 640 remote-sensing images were utilized to determine winter sea ice cover trends. As indicated by the figure below, Yan...
...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...
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...
...Industrial Revolution?” and gotten, oh, say, 1760 not 1850. Facts, you know. Ideally AFP, being a news outlet, would employ people who already knew something about James Watt, for instance...
...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,...
...field. Also, to get all technical, the story eventually says that: “While 2024 has been extremely warm, what kicked this week into new territory was a warmer-than-usual Antarctic winter, with...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...only offered the usual “Last year was another 12 months of record-breaking heat and extreme weather” framing but fact-checked Trump in advance: “Trump has falsely claimed that climate change is...
...an unprecedented cocktail of dangerous air and ocean conditions – and is likely to be extremely active, Axios extreme weather expert Andrew Freedman reports.” And you guessed it: “The big...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...study investigates 1990–2021 global tropical cyclone (TC) activity trends, a period characterized by consistent satellite observing platforms. We find that fewer hurricanes are occurring globally and that the tropics are...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...are suffering’ as climate change triples chance of extreme wildfires”. Reuters “Sustainable Switch” emails that “extreme weather continues to plague nations around the world.” A Guardian fundraising email says “In...
...confirmed that humans are making irreversible changes to our planet and extreme weather will only become more severe. This news is a “code red for humanity,” said the United Nations...
...that work?” Their nonpartisan unbiased view is that it certainly should, good and hard: “Big Oil faces mounting lawsuits as extreme weather worsens, with California leading efforts to make fossil...
...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...
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...
...The allegedly right-wing GB News station shrieks “UK weather forecast: Urgent ‘Danger to life’ warning in force before scorching temperatures strike”. Holy cow. What? Deadly heat waves in Britain in...
...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...
...ways to make it worse. Thus the New York Times chortles “California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars/ The decision, to take effect by 2035, will very likely...
Oh yes you will. A big scary headline says the earth is warming faster than settled science said. Actually, not quite: only inside climate models. Science magazine says “New climate...
...that: “Hot weather – along with extreme humidity levels that are usually associated more with the sultry U.S. Southeast – has enveloped much of the Midwest and will move into...
...Instead “meteorologists expect the overall weather pattern to remain favorable for more arctic outbreaks through the end of January.” Just weather. As was true when NPR informed us in December...
...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...
One effect of climate change is to induce people to regard any odd weather as significant even when weather has always been odd. It’s a one-size-fits-all explanation that makes journalism...
...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...
...“when a 100-year-old combined sewer pipe was connected to a newly constructed storm sewer.” Now if you’re wondering who monitors water quality, why, it’s the government. Who builds and maintains...
...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...
...climate change, according to World Weather Attribution, a network of climate modellers.” What does that claim even mean? WWA has models that attribute all bad weather to climate instantly, which...
...to New England including storm-related traffic deaths and what NBC called “bone-chilling temperatures” that set records from Oklahoma to Wisconsin to Illinois. The explanation for this phenomenon, which the climate...
...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...
...about extreme weather. The intervenors, on the side of the motion, all felt that it was getting worse, directly due to climate. Thus, typically, the second presenter showed a slide...
...in case it never does, consider also NBC’s “news” story that: “The combination of extreme high temperatures and poor air quality from Canadian wildfires and other sources of air pollution...
...to New Guinea in World War II, and from Murmansk to Cape Horn. And guess what, kids? There was climate back then too. And terrible weather. But in another sense...
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...
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...
...New World won’t arrive: “Without new regulations and bold political action. Without difficult cultural conversations. Without actual and sometimes uncomfortable change.” So there. You will be uncomfortable. And you will...
...to adopt the Green New Deal because “Capitalism is destroying our planet.” (Which doubtless explains China’s pristine environment, like that of the old Soviet Union.) Likewise the New York Times...
...ocean. Once that happens, a new ice cliff farther back would be exposed, and the new cliff would be even taller because it is farther inland. The theory of marine...
...of new purchases”. The Wall Street Journal writes that “EV Sales Run Out of Juice in Europe as Germans Tighten Belts”. And in The Telegraph Lynne gets to the heart...
A Heatmap newsletter warns about an Inflation Reduction Act program which supposedly installed 50,000 solar projects in “Low-Income Communities” yet “New data provided exclusively to Heatmap shows just how complicated...
We ask again: Is this really the moment? And once again someone thinks so: Ex-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna enthusiastically retweets a New York Times piece about how “Lockdowns and distancing...
...Evans explains, new hydro projects look to flood thousands of hectares, with one in BC aiming to stretch for 83 kilometres, and even if you can find new sites for...
It is an established principle that all climate news is bad, and all bad news is climate. But still, Wired magazine takes it up a notch by wailing that “The...
...it, the new model explains everything. “How steep were the mountain slopes? Where did glaciers reach the sea? Did friction interfere with ice flow velocity? And how much? The new...
...blunder into energy security despite our best efforts. The New York Times’ “Climate Forward” frets “Will this wartime surge end up creating a new generation of infrastructure that locks Europe...
The Canadian Press reports that “Ottawa says New Brunswick’s proposed carbon tax passes the federal smell test.” Instead of paying the national levy locals will pay a provincial one come...
...and some bad news. The good news is that a massive media project has been launched to talk about something else. The bad news is that they want non-stop discussion...
Bjorn Lomborg says when it comes to carbon emissions, we need to be very skeptical of government accounting. New Zealand, for instance, has consistently claimed success in meeting its carbon...
We’ve had plenty to say here at CDN about the elusive number known as Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity or ECS. If it’s a new topic for you please look at our...
...evidence wasn't strong enough one way or the other. The new study from Japan gets around this by looking at indirect evidence over a long geological interval. During the last...
...activity for the real kind and paying for it with fake money. What could go wrong? Well, lots of things. A new report from Canada’s Energy Regulator based on ludicrous...
...of the entire Earth,’ said study author Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the University of California at San Diego. ‘Things are happening that have not happened before.’” Leaving aside the...
...challenge facing the international community and New Zealand” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Then she said agriculture is “incredibly important to New Zealand” which is true as the place has...
...all seemed to have the same messaging memo: neither doom nor complacency, but optimistic urgency. Hence The Guardian’s “The new IPCC report offers not only hope, but practical solutions. Governments...
We were a bit surprised to hear, in the midst of the thunderous sound of foreheads hitting desks as people tried to read the new IPCC WG6, that Canada’s former...
...across the world are planning to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars, and to take older, gas-guzzling vehicles off the road. The Biden administration is proposing strict new...
...by the New York Times’ marquee climate writer David Gelles that starts with a baffled “Cleaning up the technology industry was supposed to be easy” and you realize that the...
...10,000 electric school buses appearing in New York City this decade, or even after, if I were you. Meanwhile Inside Climate News gushes that: “Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is...
We unpack a few items from Dr. John Robson's "Wednesday Wakeup" weekly newsletter....
We unpack a few items from Dr. John Robson's "Wednesday Wakeup" weekly newsletter....
...beneficial because it plugs the ugly gap in the store front, protecting the merchandise and sheltering customers and staff from inclement weather, something we already knew was worth the expense...
...to a new poll “a whopping 84 per cent of Canadians do not know what the ‘just transition’ plan actually is.” Which might be explained by its architects not knowing...
...more new policy, it is an argument for no new policy. And it is an argument for fixing the misleading models: Ultimately, there is no good reason why climate science...
...world affairs on the back of an ecologically catastrophic industry. Narrator: As Yahoo News put it: “China is dominant in the global EV sector, accounting for 69% of all new...
...And as the climate changes, our housing is uniquely vulnerable. As the world emerges from a record year for climate disasters, damages have reached a new peak. This year, there...
...view of climate alarmism. Which made us take hostile notice of the Reuters “Sustainable Switch” newsletter on April 2 that said “This week opens with devastating news from Gaza as...
Earlier this year we reported on new evidence that global greening due to rising CO2 levels is not only continuing but accelerating. Which is great news, if you’re the sort...
The Manhattan Contrarian offers a skeptical look at America’s new “Fifth National Climate Assessment” produced by a bureaucratic hydra consisting of 14 major agencies all united in believing that humanity...
...of direct observations, geographical inconsistencies in the trends, and dependencies of inferred trends on the index choice. Based on updated studies, AR4 conclusions regarding global increasing trends in drought since...
...that (1) yes there are trends and (2) the trends are attributable to greenhouse gases. Pielke Jr. concludes something different: “The IPCC AR6 failed spectacularly on tropical cyclones in concluding...
...after five days of heavy monsoon rainfall unleashed devastating flooding, as officials said the annual deluge was the greatest in 25 years…. Experts believe such extreme weather events are intensifying...
...to look around because it’s obvious how bad global warming is and how it’s getting worse. New research and ever more frequent extreme weather further prove the harm climate change...
As far as we’re concerned, it is premature to conclude with high confidence that increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations from human activities have had a detectable impact on Atlantic basin...
...no evidence of trends in droughts. Pielke Jr also discusses two new papers presenting very long historical time series of drought frequency in western Europe. One shows measurements of precipitation...
From CO2Science: Quereda et al. (2016) begin their work by stating that although “it may be accepted that urban heating is of local importance, there is no evidence that it...
We had only planned to run this series to #10. But once we got started we kept finding data so cheerful that we had to postpone the end. Including this...
From CO2Science: Significant urban heat islands have been observed in many cities. To date, much research has revealed urban heat islands are capable of introducing large and spurious warming trends...
...for temperature monitoring were launched) to the trends simulated in climate models. The older generation of climate models are called “CMIP5” and the bigger, better, more expensive new ones are...
...people think to do. So we are providing excerpts of the text of the new IPCC AR6 WG1 draft report on the big topics of the day, especially apocalyptic extreme...
...effect, since “few studies focus on the temporal variability of UHI intensity over long periods.” Yet, as they note, “knowledge of the temporal variability and trends of UHI intensity is...
...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...
...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.”...
...we? Green is the new red: Reuters “Sustainable Switch” newsletter on all things climate-related tells us: “Today’s newsletter covers the war in Gaza as dozens of Palestinian families were killed...
...ease with which downward trends become upward ones with every new revision gives any fair-minded observer considerable skepticism about the purity of the data. Blogger Tony Heller at realclimatescience.com has...
...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...
...The tornado-day time series for five of the six climatic divisions of Missouri revealed the presence of positive trends; however, none of these trends was statistically significant. For the sixth...
...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...
...the norm.” There’s that new normal again. But (as with our ongoing series on actual temperature trends in Canadian cities) Eschenbach examines actual monthly rainfall data in England and Wales...
...compared to recent instrumental measurements of drought events including those in 2003 and 2009. Their findings? Drought is not new in BC: “Our findings suggest that since 1520, 21 droughts...
...70-foot sloop with a crew of six). Then came a significant cooling to 1970, then another warming from 1970 to around 2000. These trends, incidentally, are hard to reconcile with...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...in charge of public policy really believed they could improve the weather at minimal cost they are in a hole they dug themselves. As they also are if they knew...
...Canadians in communities across the country to help them better prepare against the impacts of wildfire and other forms of extreme weather. Just last week, we announced a new half-billion...
...before cawing “While autumn storms are not uncommon in Spain, the intensity of the flooding has stunned the country. Extreme weather events like this one are becoming more common around...
...The same report adds: “Canada is warming at roughly double the global rate, and even more in the north, which leads to more frequent and intense extreme weather events.” You...
...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...
...at least the good stuff? Chocolate certainly gets it again, courtesy of The Atlantic and, of course, “extreme weather, heightened by climate change.” Plus a huge range of other stuff...
...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...
...exceptionally powerful, points out Chris Hewett, chief executive of trade association Solar Energy UK. ‘It is just the kind of extreme weather that scientists have been telling us to expect...
...an option, UN panel says… the frequency and severity of extreme weather in recent years points to new instabilities in the global patterns of ocean currents and atmospheric jet streams....
Today’s question of the week, from Reuters Sustainable Switch (and no, in 2024 they still haven’t figured out how to post their newsletters online but here’s the news story): “Has...
...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...
...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...
...the New York Times’ “Climate Fwd.” newsletter recently wrote that “It’s been unusually hot recently in some scorching-hot parts of the world. And it’s been unusually hot in places that...
...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...
...a week of weather extremes upended the lives of millions of Americans” that, after blaring “It was a week of fire and ice” beneath one of those classic red-tinted photos...
...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...
...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?...
...can just pull the plug figuratively and literally. As for Australia, the extent to which crisis is the new normal, and we mean policy crisis not the meteorological kind, was...
...why are views like his so unpopular? One reason is that “the media always love disasters. Disasters sell newspapers. They also sell television and good news does not…. The media...
...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...
...over the ocean. Then the weather balloon record looks like this”: In this chart: “The blue line is the lower troposphere record averaged over 5 weather balloon records and the...
...calm before the storm. Hurricane season doesn’t peak until Sept. 15 on average, with activity often lasting well into November. Moreover, the weather patterns expected to help fuel an active...
Via CO2science we learn of a new study (or rather another new study, there being many earlier ones making the same point) showing that cold weather is much deadlier than...
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...
...pre-industrial average (from the years 1850 to 1900), the institute added, as climate change pushes global temperatures to new records and short-term weather patterns also drive temperature movements.” Note how...
...more. To say nothing of natural variations in tides. “Still,” the Weather Network insists, “a new study says that — under the influence of the Moon’s gravitational pull — this...
...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...
...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...
...cold weather warnings remain firmly in place.” The UK is not the only place grappling with, of all things, cold weather in February, so is the United States where the...
An alert viewer suggests a variation on the old kids’ game “Simon Says” called “Science says” where it’s always “Science says… hand over your wallet”. On Jan. 28 GB News...
...jeering it. John Kerry said of this winter storm “it is directly related to the warming, even though your instinct is to say, wait a minute, this is the new...
...away from natural-gas use and gas stoves in homes and businesses. Berkeley, California – arguably the epicenter of the ‘electrify everything’ movement – banned natural gas in new buildings starting...
In the category of hallucinations by climate change zealots, we have to give some kind of prize to “America is Losing the Green-Tech Race to China”, the New York Times...
...for sure this time: “Sage’s two new announcements are the latest evidence of the ongoing renaissance in geothermal energy production. The energy source is not entirely new. The largest geothermal...
...uptick in climate news each time the conference rolls around, much of it from the conference itself.” We beg to differ. First, it seems to us that the newspapers are...
If you dissent from climate change orthodoxy you're liable to be confronted with a demand to see your academic papers, something that never happens to alarmists like Al Gore. So...
No we’re not talking about eco-tourism to an endangered rainforest or glacier dwindling to a sad little puddle. We’re referring to Michael Moore’s new documentary Planet of the Humans. Every...
...with a new fudge factor that let them ignore all the other studies that showed ECS is lower than they’ve been claiming. The new fudge factor, as Clintel explains, is...
From New York City to Ottawa, schools are giving kids a free pass if they want to be at the “in” climate change march on Sept. 27. McGill practically invited...
...they ever predicted” so their agreement on the effects, if unanimous, was also plainly defective. Climate Home News, while gushing that Kerry’s “appointment was broadly welcomed by climate advocates, who...
...it away. Speaking of away, a great distance from the Arctic in New Zealand there’s an ambitious “Predator Free 2050” plan to rid that nation, including its many islands, of...
A number of people have commented on YouTube suggesting that this video exaggerates the severity of the policy because it only bans "green" wood. So I should have been clearer...
...them written rules are useless. And the new Environment minister would be unable to perform his duties if the people he targeted with his own laws and regulations were to...
...“there can be a very high cost to building a new code or inserting a new method into an existing code. In any such effort, even real improvements will at...
...of rising aerosol concentrations. But the black line is the new data from the ice cores and the orange line is from a new model that tries to fit the...
...instance, has it ever actually happened? And does it matter? Not to her. Freeland used to be a public intellectual, whose trendy 2012 tome Plutocrats: The Rise of the New...
...balance method of computing ECS yielded an estimate of about 1.6° C. But afterwards the IPCC released new data on aerosol forcing, and some new compilations of surface temperature data...
Hi all, due to two-factor authentication issues related to international travel (aka we messed up technically) we almost certainly won't be able to send out this week's Wednesday Wakeup until...
A New York Times “Breaking News” alert says that “Europe released an ambitious blueprint to reduce emissions 55 percent by 2030, putting it at the forefront of the world’s efforts...
We have made several virtual visits to St John’s over the years, such as during our Climate Emergency Tour in October 2019 and our 1919 or 2019? tour in April...
...reports, “The sale of new gas boilers should end in a decade’s time to meet the 2050 net zero emissions target, climate advisers have recommended, posing a fresh headache for...
From the we-are-all-going-to-die climate file, always something new. In this case a warning from the Guardian that “Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers, new data shows”. And not from...
...customers in New York and Massachusetts, when three months ago it had none. Either way, 2024 may be when the industry begins to right itself. The pace of deployment may...
...rest of the world by roads – blinked out. The weather is warming, signature animals are dwindling and even the ground is shifting. Through it all, Churchill has adapted.” Yay...
...Paper reviewed: Newman, T.R., Wright, N., Wright, B. and Sjögersten, S. 2018. Interacting effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 and hydrology on the growth and carbon sequestration of Sphagnum moss. Wetlands...
...competition, New York’s greenhouse gas emissions have actually increased substantially, as two large new natural gas power plants have replaced electricity generation from two prematurely-closed emissions-free nuclear facilities, while generation...
...climate change as an emergency, some are still migrating into harm’s way. America’s coastlines and desert cities continue to swell with new arrivals and new housing developments.” Right. Almost as...
...that forms when algae is overloaded with nutrients as a result of hot weather and water pollution.” If you have any idea what the Soviet Union did to the Black...
...“MEC is pushing ahead with a new commitment to reduce our emissions in line with climate science. The goal? Cut our emissions 55% by 2030 and 90% by 2050.” (And...
...phase out new and direct government subsidies to coal except in limited circumstances at the discretion of each country, i.e., when a government wants to subsidize coal. Similarly, they’ll take...
With apologies for posting it late due to intercontinental technical difficulties.
...which we don’t mean they’re sluggish or hard to fuel. We mean a new study out of Australia says they emit more CO2 than gasoline vehicles. Et tu, Tesla? More...
...news story in the years to come — except maybe the climate crisis — than this clash of superpowers” (which is New York Times “International Editor, Opinion” Max Strasser on...
...from thin air for PR purposes. It has launched upon a project to destroy the existing economy and hope a new one descends from on high as clear as crystal,...
From the “climate change is the greatest” file we hear that the measures needed to combat climate change, far from bringing pain, open up a whole new world of prosperity...
With climate alarmism hopping from panic to panic like a polar bear on a melting ice floe, it’s useful periodically to take a quick look back. For instance the New...
...chronically underfunded care homes by introducing legislation which will force providers to meet new energy efficiency standards at great cost…. It came as the 60-year-old care home provider Abbeyfield, of...
...actual 20th and 21st century temperature data. And that, rather than fixing the problem, the newer shinier climate models are even worse. OK, you might think, but maybe they work...
...make head nor tail of anything before 1970. What Buffett said is news. And it’s important news, because there’s a vital engineering principle that it matters less whether something is...
...of dollars’ worth of land, according to a new report” bellows NBC about the United States, while The Economist has “America drowning”, ABC warns “US coastlines to experience 'profound' sea...
...require building the equivalent of one new 1.5-gigawatt nuclear plant every day for the next 30 years.” Or 36 billion new solar panels. Or 5.1 million turbines. Which Corcoran calls...
...try to explain it away, the evidence shows the contamination of the temperature record is real.” This week’s dare comes from the IPCC 5th Assessment (2013) Report Working Group I...
...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...
...constructed a new climate record for the Northern Hemisphere, using only rural weather stations and data collected over the sea surface to avoid contamination from urban heat islands. Then they...
...to this point. But Koonin’s wrecking ball keeps swinging and finding new targets, from sea levels to heat-driven mortality to crop yields to warming and growth. And on all of...
From CO2Science: Noting that “forest fires are a serious environmental hazard in southern Europe,” Turco et al. (2016) write that “quantitative assessment of recent trends in fire statistics is important...
...historical trends with IPCC model predictions. Which is a temptation we can’t resist. Here is the satellite-based record of rainfall trends around the world from 1983 to the present: Red...
Part 3 of our series on the new Clintel Report on the new IPCC Report looks at Andy May’s chapter on surface temperature data. He poses the question of whether...
...Observed trends varied in their strength and consistency, and AR5 thus made no confidence statement on observed changes. The [Special Report on Climate Change and Land SRCCL] subsequently concluded that...
From CO2Science: Significant urban heat islands have been observed in many cities. To date, much research has revealed urban heat islands are capable of introducing large and spurious warming trends...
...trends. In fact, curiously, tree rings are especially likely only to pick up year-to-year or decade-long variations while entirely missing the century-scale trends recorded by the other types of proxies...
...used well established climate vulnerability and risk assessment methodologies”. Those methodologies, of course, include RCP8.5. The overall document “Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessment” takes it for granted on p....
...the good news, and when failure is the good news you know you’re in trouble, is that this time at least the cunning plan to redo the planet and get...
...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...
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...
...weather object was causing “winter alerts, ice storm warnings and flood alerts stretching from the southern Plains to New England” even as Ukraine was receiving air raid alerts and Russian...
...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...
...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...
...trends in wildfires as a firefighter does trends in diabetes. Or, based on this study, somewhat less. On the plus side, they seem to know a lot about kitchen sinks....
...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,...
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...
...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...
...125,000 years. But how do they know, when the earliest modern thermometers were invented by German physicist Daniel Fahrenheit in 1709, and we have very few systematic weather records anywhere...
Sounds like a pamphlet for a holiday destination, but we’re in fact referring to a new scientific paper (Ludecke et al. 2020) that explores the relationship between variations in solar...
...last seven years its continued lack of progress can’t be causing anything. But when a news outlet blurts out an inconvenient truth like “Where in the world is the summer...
...oft-quoted climate scientist: ‘The damaging impacts of climate change, and in particular from more extreme weather events, such as wildfires, floods, heatwaves, more intense hurricanes, are actually in many respects...
...Or is it just heads I win, tails you lose, as a drought that ended proves drought won’t end? And we ask that question because over at the New York...
...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...
...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...
...a new study of 47 years of satellite records, the two apparently have nothing to do with each other. Specifically, the risk of large iceberg calving hasn’t changed in half...
...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...
...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...
...Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica frets nobly in the New York Times that “Helene was just the latest in a new generation of storms that are intensifying faster, and dumping 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”.)...
...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...
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...
...was. Unless you count the 15 recorded ones in the U.S. between 1959 and 1995, for instance. Also “In recent years, extreme weather events like drought and flooding have disrupted...
...— 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...
...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...
...them. From the “hottest year ever” file, we bring you such toasty news as “Wind chill to hit -11 C as winter arrives in Ottawa” plus “BC’s weather forecast is...
...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...
...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...
...a bit higher than at other times of the year, other than June. In many areas. Yes, folks, “The Weather Network is predicting more sunshine and warmer temperatures for 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...
...country, and it’s only getting worse.” Most likely. As in you just made it up? After all, if extreme weather is not getting worse, and it’s not, then “climate change”...
...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...
...But here’s the thing: Haverly’s actual paper proposing this madness explicitly aims at “accelerating carbon sequestration through Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW)”. And Enhanced Rock Weathering is an “in” thing with...
...way to 2004, sneaking in some unusually high temperatures that don't show up in the new satellite’s record, or in weather balloon records. The end result was a bit of...
...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...
...snide about weather. At least not very, because the press release the other press release announced says: “The annual global mean temperature forecast is produced by the Government of Canada...
...is bad, and this news is good, so it’s not climate news. (Unlike, say, the Guardian’s “Type of storm that drenched New York is up to 20% wetter due to...
...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...
...Fine. Now apply that analysis to those who claim all bad weather events are due to climate change, climate skepticism is a lavishly-funded “Exxon knew”, a storm proves the weather...
...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...
...data now agree with it. So does the ongoing weather balloon record. So there are now no grounds for ignoring the weather satellite record. Comparison of the satellite data against...
...and nobody seems very sure what this thing called “climate change” is that supposedly causes weather to get worse rather than being the worse weather we’re not even having. And...
...much like the weather of, say, 1850 or 1450 or a million BC or the Cretaceous? Now we have to add: Do they think that before “climate change” the weather...
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...
...what about the weather, since if it’s cold it can’t be climate, a word that does not appear anywhere in the story? Not looking good: “Britain enters the new year...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...deliver the climate gains, not even in GHG reductions etc. much less the promised improvement in the weather. They didn’t even succeed in building useless green infrastructure. In one particularly...
Environment and Climate Change Canada has put forward a plan to make sure the economic recovery, should it get underway, doesn’t emit CO2. The new “Strategic Assessment of Climate Change”...
...have lost their objectivity. Including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the US National Climate Assessment and even the US National Academy of Science. He remarks bluntly (p. 189) “when...
...its Assessment Reports, begins with assessment of plausible future socioeconomic development pathways, showing what the economy might do and what policy might be, then works out plausible emission pathways based...
Back in November we quoted the Minister of Natural Resources about methane, the new climate villain, being “responsible for around 30 percent of the global rise in temperatures to date”....
From the CO2Science Archive: Background: The authors write that “climate impact assessments require primarily regional- to local-scale climate data for the past and the present and scenarios for the future,”...
...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...
[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...
...IPCC 5th Assessment Report, Chapter 2, page 214, which reads: Sheffield and Wood (2008) found decreasing trends in the duration, intensity and severity of drought globally. Conversely, Dai (2011a,b) found...
...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...
...quite the kerfuffle because the Bureau of Meteorology tried to hide the fact that newer temperature probes tend to record higher temperatures than older ones, and it took a series...
The New York Times “Climate Fwd.” piles on with “See how the Antarctic is signaling major climate disruption”. Apparently sophisticated new “autonomous water-measuring floats” are letting us study it for...
...so often the alarmists try to wave the problem away and insist it doesn't matter, but the reality is otherwise. For example, a new study re-examining long term temperature data...
...(2017), who examined trends in the occurrence of major floods across North America and Europe over the past eight decades. Paper reviewed: Hodgkins, G.A., Whitfield, P.H., Burn, D.H., Hannaford, J.,...
...brings us to the stunning news that in Ottawa, also not noted for its olive groves, we just had our 251st day over 5°C which puts us in 9th place...
...performed several new analyses on both data sets, “bringing the time series up to date” (to 2007, from a starting date of 1971), while looking at “temperature trends in the...
...back then too. Climate scientists were already pointing to significant upward trends in global temperature. And the article we quoted didn’t dispute that there was a trend, or that by...
...does not provide consensus on the detection of trends or on the attribution of trends to anthropogenic influences. On the basis of the few decades of reliable historical data, there...
...fall and winter trends melted away into decreasing trends. The Clintel team discuss some of the questionable statistical modeling done by Mudryk. And they invited him to answer their questions...
...irrigated regions. In recent years, proof of this concept has emerged in studies examining historic trends in the stable carbon isotope ratio (δ13C) of tree rings, which have been utilized...
...2010s (--) and probably through near-present; for example, (--) documented an LAI increase over one-third of the global vegetated area from 2000–2017.” Although less frequently analysed for temporal trends, Fraction...
...China. The country-wide average annual and seasonal mean effects of urbanization, as well as their relative contributions to the overall warming trends observed over the 1961-2004 period, are presented in...
...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...
...increasing trend. The decreasing trends in the south were attributed to warming. Guess what the increasing trends in the Arctic were attributed to? Warming, of course. Global warming is one...
...new satellite records show the farmers are benefiting as much as the forests, perhaps even twice as much. The authors of the new study took the satellite measurements and divided...
From CO2Science: In an interesting forestry-related paper Pretzsch et al. (2020) examined growth trends of Norway spruce (Picea abies), silver fir (Abies alba) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees in...
...OK. Guterres is a raving nit. We knew it. But what to do instead? Apparently warming is going to continue, and so will fossil fuel use. We knew those things...
...is. Of course it’s just one news story even if it waves the juju about a new “peer-reviewed study”. But it warns that “Most hydrogen used today is extracted from...
...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...
In this week’s entry in our review of the Clintel analysis of the recent IPCC report we look at Ole Humlum’s chapter on sea level trends. We like having a...
...Trends in Plant Science 6: 323-326. Van de Water, P.K., Leavitt, S.W. and Betancourt, J.L. 1994. Trends in stomatal density and 13C/12C ratios of Pinus flexilis needles during the last...
...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...
...for 51% of the province’s total generation in 2019.” Blast. (As in furnace.) New Brunswick does better from the Guilbeault point of view: “In 2019, approximately 38% of New Brunswick’s...
...also from Climate Home News, further muddying the math: “Stories of big polluters hiding their climate credentials behind dodgy carbon credits are nothing new. They usually go like this: company...
...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...
We continue reviewing Bjorn Lomborg’s detailed examination of likely trends over the 21st century and the question of whether policies like the Paris target will make us better off or...
...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...
...of why something that isn’t happening must be. Including an item last month from Arctic News (actually a wildly alarmist site not a news outlet, which recently warned that worldwide...
...of the US may be grappling with frigid weather, but for the planet as a whole, heat records are being obliterated — and it spells very bad news. Two new...
...1979, leaving out the 1930s, the Roman Warm Period, the Holocene Climatic Optimum and anything else inconvenient. Of course all these news outfits are running essentially the same story. They’re...
...way. For instance an article in AAOS Now, which if you do not saw through people’s bones regularly you may not know is the newsletter of the American Academy of...
...happy when they’re wrong. So we’re happy that after endless carping about how all climate news is bad, we find a National Geographic headline “Climate change could make French wine...
...is that too many commentators didn’t get along with it in their youth and have not reconciled since. We could also point out, by way of detecting trends in temperature...
...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...
...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...
...risk in California’ – focuses exclusively on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behavior. I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my...
You’ll never guess what dirty trick we deniers have now come up with. But luckily you don’t have to because the BBC has exposed us. The government news organ reveals...
...even if you didn’t also overestimate the impact of forests. The news that “Carbon released by US forests burnt in recent blazes expected to wipe out most of the buffer...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
All the news that’s fit to anticipate: NBC warns that “Early hurricane season forecast suggests extremely high number of storms” based on something that isn’t climate change but, of course,...
...Robson, and this is a Climate Discussion Nexus Fact Check on urban flooding. Narrator There’s nothing new about rain. And there’s nothing new about floods either. Throughout history we’ve had...
...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...
...and despite there being more stuff in their paths, as the world gets richer we get better and better at avoiding damages due to extreme weather. Elsewhere Pielke Jr. notes...
...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,...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...instability a new thing, attributable to the evils of modern motor vehicles, or has precipitation always been a complicated part of weather? You decide. One of these lines is the...
...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...
...data from airport weather stations, researchers from the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) found that from 2014 to 2023 there were nearly 6,500 cumulative days when one...
...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...
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...
...some dumb thermometer? Thus, undaunted, the Washington Post ran a graphic of where the deadliest heat was hitting in… what’s this? 2053? Yes. Some weather forecast. Some news. P.S. Even...
...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...
Out to the east coast we go, all the way to our easternmost weather station in St. John's Newfoundland, where the records go back to 1942. If you're hoping for...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...company that provides information to clients about weather and climate-related risk.” Oh really? And who created these expectations? It might seem like “whataboutism”, the new magic word to make awkward...
...by the Australian government to say the weather is bad and getting worse and it’s our fault say the weather is bad and getting worse and it’s our fault and...
...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...
In case you were tired of wall-to-wall climate coverage regardless of whatever else is happening, Brodie Fenlon, “editor in chief and executive director of daily news for CBC News” at...
...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...
...century. This time, however, we note a new study in Nature in which scientists go the other way: arguing that the sea surface temperature record from 1900 to 1930 is...
...snaps and concerns about depleting gas inventories in Europe played a large part in the latest hike.” Recent cold snaps. That’s one way of describing prolonged cold weather lasting months....
...“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...
...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...
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....
Just in time for the massive protest by Dutch farmers against greenhouse gas regulations that will put an estimated one-third of them out of business, a new study by Dutch...
...dry weather.” On the right, an August 9 2023 GB News headline with the same or lower temperatures shown as a blazing red map under a headline “Scorching 28C heat...
...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...
GB News, an ostensibly conservative British news organization, has taken a page from the alarmist handbook of temperature map colouring, using this map to illustrate a coming swing to temperatures...
...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...
...GB News seeks to panic Britons with “UK weather forecast: Storm deluge strikes as creepy ‘radiation fog’ descends on Britain”. As in heat radiating up from the ground, not the...
In our relentless quest for good news at CDN, we’ve been pondering whether in all the ruckus over a “backlash” against climate alarmism we might not be seeing some badly-needed...
...Global Warming Policy Foundation report “Weather Extremes in Historical Context“ shows that panic over floods, tornadoes and yes droughts is driven by ignorance. Not ignorance quite as bad as that...
...extremes. 1818 was exceptionally wet while 1865 was exceptionally dry. But there were regular episodes of extreme flooding or drought, and the authors quote from contemporary news reports that confirm...
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...
...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....
According to Global News, in case you missed it, “Something happened this summer, we all felt it. Day after day, new images emerged of the tropics and the Arctic on...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...of funds.” Let them eat promises. The full flavour of the slow-motion wreck is captured by a Climate Home News “COP29 Bulletin Day 11: New text floats $250bn core goal...
...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...
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...
...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...
...his expose on the “tactical” science behind extreme weather attribution. (We discussed Part I here.) In it he discusses the formation of a new panel of the US National Academy...
...(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...
...“social cost”. And some economists have big complex “Integrated Assessment Models” that take guesstimates from climate models and combine them with conjectures from economic models, model how the models model...
...developing new oil, gas and coal fields today or face a dangerous rise in global temperatures. That’s the bold assessment from the International Energy Agency, the organization that has spent...
...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...
...Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035, well that’s quite the story. Here’s what the IPCC said in its Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group II Chapter 10, based on their supposedly rigorous...
...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...
...in nature and their inherent variability.” Indeed, it seems only obvious that the best and most realistic experimental conditions are required in order to produce a realistic assessment of the...
...primaries to the broader dynamics of a general election. In this instance, Harris’ volte face on fossil fuels appears to reflect a new-found sobriety among Democrats about the realities of...
...rate and up to three times the global average in the North. Canadians regularly experience the devastating effects of weather and climate extreme events on their communities, economy, and environment....