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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
I covered this story the other day, and inevitably it is making headlines across the media (as it was intended to):
Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse–Say weather attribution models
The claim is not based on any actual data, but on weather attribution models.
But what does the actual data tell us?
Much of the world lacks long term, high quality data. But one country that does have it in abundance is the US, and it tells us a completely different story to the one presented in the latest report.
Heatwaves, for instance, used to be much worse than now, and not only during the dustbowl years of the 1930s. Climate fraudsters love to begin their trends from the 1960s, when the world was cooling. But as the graph below shows, there is nothing out of the ordinary about recent heatwaves:
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-heat-wavesThen we can turn to drought. The record exhibits large swings, but plainly droughts are not getting worse – on the contrary, the 1920s, 30s and 50s were much worse than now:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/13/us-climate-is-getting-less-extreme-not-more/
