Media Tout Dubious Alarmist ‘Study’ on Floods that Defies Climate Consensus
By
James Taylor -
January 12, 20210
The media today are touting a new “study’ by climate activists at Stanford University claiming that climate change is responsible for one-third of U.S. flooding since 1988, causing $75 billion dollars in excess flooding damage. However, the “settled scientific consensus†and scientific data show just the opposite. Rather than uncritically publicizing the activists’ study, the media should be criticizing it for recklessly attacking “settled science.â€
Three researchers at Stanford University who have a long record of drawing media attention by pronouncing a global warming crisis published a paper in which they say floods in the United States are more frequent in recent decades. Their study reports that the computer models they created show climate change is partly to blame, causing 36 percent of the increase.
However, as documented in Climate at a Glance: Floods, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports “low confidence†that climate change has had any impact on floods. IPCC even acknowledges that climate change is as likely to have reduced flooding frequency and severity as it has been to make floods more common.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/01/media-tout-dubious-alarmist-study-on-floods-that-defies-climate-consensus/
