UN’s New Report Shows There’s ‘Little Basis’ For A Favorite Claim Of Climate Activists
By Paul Homewood
As I noted earlier, the latest IPCC report contained little of any real substance as to why we should be scared about another half a degree or so if warming.
Instead they were forced to wheel out the usual fake stories about “extreme weather”.
However, as Michael Bastach writes below, the IPCC themselves have already been forced to admit that there is little basis for such claims:
UN’s New Report Shows There’s ‘Little Basis’ For A Favorite Claim Of Climate Activists
- The media regularly links extreme weather to man-made global warming.
- The UN’s new report debunks that often used talking point.
- The report, once again, shows “there is little basis for” such claims.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change’s (IPCC) newly-released climate report, once again, found little to no evidence global warming caused many types of extreme weather events to increase.
“The IPCC once again reports that there is little basis for claiming that drought, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes have increased, much less increased due to” greenhouse gases, University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke, Jr. tweeted Sunday night.
For example, the IPCC’s report noted that “there is only low confidence regarding changes in global tropical cyclone numbers under global warming over the last four decades.” Pielke pointed out this inconvenient data.
Much like the IPCC’s 2013 climate assessment, the new special report confirmed what Pielke and others have said for years about the relationship between global warming and extreme weather.
But don’t expect to hear that from many other media outlets, especially those that often cite individual weather events as evidence of man-made warming.
For example, The Washington Post’s write-up of the IPCC’s report focused on the mainline findings — namely, that “the world is woefully off target” to keep future global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The New York Times highlighted the IPCC’s warning of “a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040.” Neither WaPo nor NYT mentioned the report’s findings on extreme weather.
The IPCC’s new report is meant to sound the alarm on global warming ahead of the UN climate summit, which is to be held in Poland this December. Delegates are expected to make further commitments to implement the Paris climate accord that calls for limiting future warming below 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.
Aside from dire predictions, however, the IPCC’s new report also noted that many types of extreme weather events are not getting worse. (RELATED: It’s The Final Chance We Have To Stop Global Warming … Until The Next Chance)
When it comes to droughts, for example, the IPCC admits there is “low confidence in the sign of drought trends since 1950 at global scale. The report says there are “likely to be trends in some regions of the world,” including increasing droughts in the Mediterranean and decreasing droughts in parts of North America.
The IPCC also noted there is “low confidence due to limited evidence, however, that anthropogenic climate change has affected the frequency and the magnitude of floods.” The report added that “streamflow trends since 1950 are non-statistically significant in most of the world’s largest rivers.”
However, the report’s authors warned that future warming could exacerbate extreme weather and hurt the global economy. The report’s authors also claimed extreme weather had already increased, contrary to much of their own evidence.
“One of the key messages that comes out very strongly from this report is that we are already seeing the consequences of 1 [degree Celsius] of global warming through more extreme weather, rising sea levels and diminishing Arctic sea ice, among other changes,” Panmao Zhai, an IPCC co-chair, said in a statement issued Sunday.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/08/un-climate-report-global-warming/
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When the IPCC states that they have ‘low confidence’ in an anthropogenic attribution to an increase in particular extreme weather events it invariably means that the actual scientific data proves the exact opposite or is completely neutral. The incidence of major flooding, drought, tornado, wild fire and hurricane events since the IPCC’s inception has clearly shown that their prophecies and expectations in comparison to actual events are worse than useless. Just as well they aren’t bookies. They would’ve been cleaned out years ago. Anyone who actually takes an outfit like the IPCC seriously, a cabal that, allegedly, is motivated by science but, increasingly seems to rely on runes, ouija boards and wishful thinking to divine the climatic future, needs certifying!
It all smells of desperation. Another attempt at the UN by small nations and parasitic dogmas to tax the citizens of western democracies for their hard work while having no impact on the the excessive polluters and nations that have no truck with democratic principals. These appeals are directed, inevitably, at the considerate nations who are willing to participate in process and diplomacy while the ones outside the system go along untouched. Trump’s complaints about the UN are pretty near to the mark (for someone so peremptorily dismissed for his commentary).
We should file this one under willing dupes and opine the sad lack of resistance and obduracy from our government its lack of confrontation with those who would wish to coerce nature and science in a effort to institute half-baked answers to a problem that may not even exist. The rise of the ill-informed proselytiser is the real threat to the planet not our science blundering, as it is, through the foothills of discovery. If we allow this anti-capitalist strain to continue unabated we will soon have parity of national wealth with Russia . People used to be afraid of our planets vast forests and the creatures that might lurk within bent on our harm. This folk memory seems to pervade modern day.
Those portents and myths are a powerful part of modern day discourse which seems to emanate from spineless politics that can only think in terms of ingratiating itself with the lower levels of their constituencies. That person who said that politics was show business for ugly people was not far from the truth and the clamour not to nail your credentials to the mast is positively deafening as representatives seek a soft and pliant footnote to their CVs, seek to secure votes in their placidity, aridity, friend of all image manipulation; their total lack of objectivity and candour.
Since the early 1980’s, various “scientists” and celebrities have warned that we only have TEN years left. Every decade passes and we are still here listing to yet another celebrity or scientific pundit.
A recent one said it was already too late. Well, if that is the case, why bother?