The Weather Isn’t Getting Worse. The Lawsuits Are
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by Angela Wheeler
Rather than a serious assessment of the connection between extreme weather and climate change, a recent National Academies of Sciences (NAS) webinar presented a 253-page report engineered to reinforce the shopworn claim that emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) threaten a climate crisis.
The hour-long presentation was as thin on real science as the self-congratulations were effusive. The NAS committee reviewing the issue, we were told, had done “a great job,” improved on a 2016 report, and now needs more funding and theoretical modeling. There was no data-driven test of whether CO2 from human activity alters the frequency or severity of bad weather. The report simply assumes the link and builds on it.
Committee Chair James W. Hurrell offered no contrary evidence. The webinar ignored a drop in hurricane activity, record extreme heat of the 1930s, and forest-management practices that increase fuel loads, suppress natural fires, and lead to explosive infernos.
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