Jim Kossin
Analysis of "One of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found new evidence in its favor"
“Overall, this piece accurately describes the findings of a new research paper by Mann et al on linkages between rapid Arctic warming and extreme weather at Earth’s more temperate latitudes. While there are a couple of statements that are overly confident given available evidence in the peer-reviewed literature, the author generally does an excellent job placing this new work into the broader context of related studies over the past decade.”
Sea level rise is accelerating, and with it the risk associated with coastal storm surge, contrary to claim in Forbes
Claim:
Sea level rise, which was occurring long before humans could be blamed, has not accelerated.
Analysis of "Hillary Clinton Boards The Climate Crisis Train To Nowhere"
“The article is inaccurate in several places and conveys that one must choose between solving immediate problems, such as poverty, and long-term risks such as climate change. We can do both, and indeed must do both if we take poverty seriously, since climate change disproportionately affects the poor.”
Analysis of “How Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane on record so quickly”
“A well written and balanced article that draws on a range of scientific opinion from well-established climate scientists, hurricane specialists and forecasters. The article provides a nice summary of the major physical factors at play, while also highlighting the issues and challenges to do with detection and attribution of extreme events such as this.”
Analysis of “South Carolina flooding is the type of event climate scientists have warned about for years”
“It’s tricky to evaluate the contribution of climate change to a particular weather event, but generally speaking, the author provides an accurate summary of the challenges of this research, and the range of scientific thinking about it.”
Analysis of "Vanuatu's president makes a leap in tying Cyclone Pam to climate change"
“… well-written article that hits most of the key points regarding the complex question of how global warming may affect tropical cyclones.”