Media’s claim that Lake Mead is shrinking due to ‘climate change’ DEBUNKED
https://junkscience.com/2022/06/is-lake-mead-shrinking-because-of-climate/ Is Lake Mead shrinking because of climate? By Steve Milloy Wall Street Journal reporter Jim Carlton says Lake Mead is shrinking because of climate change. Is it? We report. You decide. Here’s is Carlton’s claim: First, the history of Lake Mead’s elevation is actually quite volatile. And the elevation is relatively low now […]
NPR: ‘There’s a nationwide Sriracha shortage, & climate change may be to blame’
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/17/1105477224/sriracha-shortage-chilli-climate-changeAshish Valentine headshot By ASHISH VALENTINE Sorry, Sriracha fans, your favorite hot sauce is running out nationwide. The company that makes Sriracha, Huy Fong Foods, wrote in an email to customers in late April that it will have to stop making the sauce for the next few months due to “severe weather conditions affecting the quality of […]
No, Time Magazine, Climate Change is Not Worsening Drought
https://climaterealism.com/2022/05/no-time-magazine-climate-change-is-not-worsening-drought/ No, Time Magazine, Climate Change is Not Worsening DroughtClimateRealism / by Linnea Lueken / 4d A recent Time magazine article says human-caused climate change is increasing the severity and number of droughts around the world. These claims are false. Drought tracking data show no meaningful trend in severity or frequency of drought globally. Referencing […]
‘UN is misusing data’: Ignores fact that ‘deaths in climate-related disasters declined 99% from a century ago’
https://nypost.com/2022/04/30/deaths-in-climate-disasters-declined-99-from-a-century-ago/ By Bjorn Lomborg A new United Nations report has revealed the disturbing news that the number of global disasters has quintupled since 1970 and will increase by another 40 percent in coming decades. They find that more people are affected by disasters than ever before, and the UN Deputy Secretary-General warns humanity is “on a spiral of self-destruction.” Astonishingly, the UN […]
2021 State Of The Climate Report: It was not a good year for the climate narrative
https://www.cfact.org/2022/01/25/2021-state-of-the-climate-report/ By Tony Heller A number of key metrics have been promoted by the press and politicians over the past few decades as evidence of a deteriorating climate. These include sea ice, polar temperatures, forest fire burn acreage, heat waves, drought, sea level rise, coral reef health and the fate of island nations and beaches. This […]
Report exposes how World Meteorological Organization is guilty of ‘blatant misuse of statistics’ about climate extremes
https://co2coalition.org/2022/01/17/global-agency-sows-fear-with-misinformation/ Global agency sows fear with misinformation by Gregory Wrightstone and Kip Hansen A recent report by the World Meteorological Organization claims that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of natural disasters over the last 50 years. According to the WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970 – […]
Weather & Climate Disasters Are Declining Globally
https://reason.com/2022/01/07/weather-and-climate-disasters-are-declining-globally/printer/ By RONALD BAILEY Increasing weather damage costs are not reliable evidence for climate change. “The number of weather, climate and water extremes are increasing and will become more frequent and severe in many parts of the world as a result of climate change,” declared World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary-General Petteri Taalas last August. He was making […]
UN claimed Madagascar experienced ‘world’s first climate-induced famine’ – But new study shows poverty, not climate, caused food crisis
Oops Do you remember how the UN kept saying Madagascar experienced the "world’s first climate-induced famine”? Well, the UN lied Poverty, not climate, caused Madagascar’s food crisis, an actual study findshttps://t.co/TJ3m5DBprt pic.twitter.com/9YFdmc3QwD — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) December 16, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/01/poverty-not-climate-breakdown-caused-madagascars-food-crisis-finds-study Poverty, not climate breakdown, caused Madagascar’s food crisis, finds study By Damian Carrington Environment editor Poverty […]
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. : ‘What is climate attribution about? Politics first, science second’
What is climate attribution about?Politics first, science second So let's err on the side of claiming every weather event is linked, connected, fueled by climatehttps://t.co/ENdfSbebDr pic.twitter.com/DG8QT2Up7K — The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) December 15, 2021 As I explained here: https://t.co/gwBEtQRWcd — The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) December 15, 2021 The Politics of Our Climate Attribution Obsession Linking […]
Climate ‘attribution is political’: New Paper: ‘Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change’
https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1469329473627582465 Attribution is political "Powerful science leaders hope that identification of the role of climate change in extreme weather events will “spur more immediate action” to mitigate climate change and to avert the damages associated with such events" — The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) December 10, 2021 "tension between climate-centric framings of disasters and attributions that […]