Today's Climate Embarrassment

[John Reece]

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POSTED ON JULY 3, 2014 BY STEVEN HAYWARD

TODAY’S CLIMATE EMBARRASSMENT

A reader up in the Great White North directs our attention to the fact that Manitoba and Saskatchewan are both suffering from severe flooding at the moment, which automatically sets off talk of . . . now wait for it, darn it . . . climate change! There’s just one inconvenient problem: a careful study reported yesterday in the National Post finds that extreme precipitation events in the region are less frequent today than over the last several hundred years. This chart tells the story very clearly (...):

[Sparko]

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POSTED ON JULY 3, 2014 BY STEVEN HAYWARD

TODAY’S CLIMATE EMBARRASSMENT

A reader up in the Great White North directs our attention to the fact that Manitoba and Saskatchewan are both suffering from severe flooding at the moment, which automatically sets off talk of . . . now wait for it, darn it . . . climate change! There’s just one inconvenient problem: a careful study reported yesterday in the National Post finds that extreme precipitation events in the region are less frequent today than over the last several hundred years. This chart tells the story very clearly (...):

er, obviously that uh means that the REDUCED flooding is due to climate change!

[Jedidiah]

Yeah, that.

[John Reece]

Today's Climate Embarrassment

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POSTED ON JULY 6, 2014 BY STEVEN HAYWARD

TODAY’S CLIMATE EMBARRASSMENT

Salon.com (yes, I know) is celebrating that the BBC has decided to go full Pravda on us and cease allowing “climate deniers” on the air. Well, it is a government-run media establishment. But that would be the same BBC that refused to allow Churchill to broadcast his “appeasement denial” views back in the 1930s. Yup, same slimy people. ....

[John Reece]

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POSTED ON JULY 7, 2014 BY STEVEN HAYWARD

TODAY’S CLIMATE EMBARRASSMENT—NOT THE USUAL

Today’s New York Times (sigh) carries an article from Justin Gillis wringing his hands about what do about climate change—especially methane emissions. But take in the second sentence of his lede very slowly and carefully:

[stfoskey15]

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POSTED ON JULY 7, 2014 BY STEVEN HAYWARD

TODAY’S CLIMATE EMBARRASSMENT—NOT THE USUAL

Today’s New York Times (sigh) carries an article from Justin Gillis wringing his hands about what do about climate change—especially methane emissions. But take in the second sentence of his lede very slowly and carefully:

I believe the debate is about the size of the problem, not if the problem is real or not. It's sort of like forecasting a tropical system. You can know it will probably organize and form a hurricane, but the exact details of its path and strength are much harder to predict.