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…culprit, although it certainly is a suspect. Gone are the days when scientists drew a bright line dividing weather and climate. Now researchers can examine a weather event and estimate…
…the hot and dry weather that exacerbates fires, and the IPCC found “medium confidence” that this sort of weather has become more probable in the U.S. over the past century[18]….
When an electric grid fails, solar and wind often get the blame. Whenever an electric grid fails in cold weather, renewable energy opponents tend to claim that wind turbines are…
…is no evidence suggesting that additional melt is causing weather systems to linger longer. Enhanced Arctic warming is believed to be causing more persistent weather patterns under certain conditions, however….
Claim:
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'
…conditions and steep terrain. With steep terrain, harsh weather conditions, and the constant pull of gravity, the mountains are slowly but steadily being worn down and broken apart through weathering,…
…weather variability worsened the fires by increasing dry vegetation (which serves as fuel) Climate scientists explain that more research is needed to better understand how climate change impacted these fires…
Claim:
"climate models that attempt to predict the future temperature of the planet...don’t work. They haven’t worked in the past. They don’t work now."; "the number of factors that influence climate—the sun, the earth’s orbital properties, oceans, clouds, and, yes, industrial man—is huge and enormously variable"; "CO2 is a minor contributor to the warming of the earth"
…states, “Economic losses from weather– and climate-related disasters have increased”[4]. Wrightstone also misleads readers about the impacts of atmospheric CO2 and global temperature by claiming that CO2 levels and temperatures…
Claim:
"Global warming saves 166,000 lives each year"; those claiming that climate change is causing heat-related deaths are wrong because they ignore that the population is growing and becoming older