Climate Scientist: ‘Global Warming’ Was ‘Inconsequential’ To Harvey – ‘Using hand-waving arguments to push an agenda’

BY MICHAEL BASTASCH After a deluge of media reports surfaced linking global warming to Hurricane Harvey, University of Washington atmospheric scientist Cliff Mass analyzed the available data to see just how big a role human emissions of greenhouse gases played in the storm. “And the results are clear: human-induced global warming played an inconsequential role […]

Prof. Roger Pielke Jr in WSJ: ‘U.S. hadn’t been hit by a Cat 3 + since Katrina in 2005. We were overdue’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hurricane-lull-couldnt-last-1504220969 Date: 01/09/17 Roger Pielke Jr. The Wall Street Journal The U.S. hadn’t been hit by a Category 3 or stronger storm since Katrina in 2005. We were overdue. A neighborhood near Addicks Reservoir in Houston, Aug. 29. PHOTO: DAVID J. PHILLIP/ASSOCIATED PRESS Activists, journalists and scientists have pounced on the still-unfolding disaster in Houston and along […]

Study: ‘Climate change’ may be linked to spike in US road deaths in 2015 – ‘Death rate higher in warmer areas’

Via: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/b-ccm082917.php PUBLIC RELEASE: 31-AUG-2017 Climate change may be linked to spike in US road deaths in 2015 Cell phone use behind the wheel had been thought most likely explanation Climate change may be linked to the spike in US road deaths in 2015, which abruptly reversed the trend of the previous 35 years, concludes a […]