Climate change and its impacts on the water cycle; how can it increase both droughts and heavy downpours?
If your tap ran dry and stores closed down, where would you get your freshwater? Water is essential to human…
Financial Post commentary jumps to unsupported conclusions in claiming “climate change isn’t causing extreme weather”
“This article is misleading since it confuses changes in climate change impacts with changes in climate and weather extremes and it subjectively selects examples that support its message.
There is clear scientific evidence that many weather and climate extreme events increase in intensity and frequency due to anthropogenic climate change. Munich Re, for example, publishes data on global major extreme events in its annual reports.”
Senator Sanders' claim that climate change is making tornadoes worse isn't supported by published research
Claim:
The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse.
Some extreme weather events are clearly becoming more common, in contrast to Lord Lawson's claim
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The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sort of the voice of the consensus, concedes that there has been no increase in extreme weather events.
Lord Lawson falsely claims that global temperatures have declined over last decade
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according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined
Analysis of "From extreme drought to record rain: Why California's drought-to-deluge cycle is getting worse"
“The article is accurate and highlights the challenges that California’s water resource managers are facing due to climate change. There are some issues with differentiating natural climate variability and forced climate change but the main points are correct.”