Pielke Jr. rips NYT & media for being ‘100% wrong’ about new fed climate study
Extreme weather expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: "Any politician, journo, sci claiming that new US climate report supports attributing trends in extremes to human causes is just wrong"
"NYT 100% wrong": "report finds that every part of the country has been touched by warming, from droughts in the SE to flooding in the MW"
Hurricanes: "there is still low confidence that any reported long-term (multidecadal to centennial) increases in TC activity are robust"
Tornadoes: "A particular challenge in quantifying the existence and intensity of these events arises from the data source" (so, meh)
Drought: "drought statistics over the entire CONUS have declined ... no detectable change in meteorological drought at the global scale"
We can once again place John Holdren's "debate" with me on drought into context. One of us was right & still is.
"IPCC AR5 did not attribute changes in flooding to anthro. influence nor report detectable changes in flooding mag, duration, or freq"
In US "increasing & decreasing flooding magnitude but does not provide robust evidence that these trends are attributable to human influences"
"no formal attribution of observed flooding changes to anthropogenic forcing has been claimed"
Mann in NYT w/ nonsense
"increasingly destructive hurricanes, epic drought... the impacts of climate change are no longer subtle"
The New York Times, for example, reported “that every part of the country has been touched by warming, from droughts in the Southeast to flooding in the Midwest to a worrying rise in air and ground temperatures in Alaska, and conditions will continue to worsen.”
But that is not correct, according to University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke, Jr., an expert on extreme weather trends and natural disaster costs.
Pielke pointed out that the NCA largely pretty much entirely echoes past climate assessments when it comes to extreme weather events, like storms, droughts, wildfires and floods.
But NYT’s narrative about Americans already feeling the effect of global warming-induced extreme weather was echoed by other major outlets.
“And Americans are already experiencing the effects of climate change through heavier rainfall, coastal flooding, drought, more frequent heatwaves and wildfires, and earlier snow melt,” AFP reported of the NCA, released Friday.
The Washington Post said the report found “climate change is driven almost entirely by human action” and “enumerates climate-related damage across the United States that is already occurring as a result of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit of global warming since 1900.”
Pielke went through the NCA’s findings when it comes to extreme weather trends in the U.S., finding, unsurprisingly, there’s little evidence linking man-made warming to such trends.
