Follow the Science, Yahoo News, Climate Change is Not Causing More Extreme Weather
By Paul Homewood
Climate Realism respond to Yahoo Fake News:
Yahoo News posted an article titled, “Extreme weather fueled by climate change hit 4 in 10 Americans where they lived in 2021,” saying climate change is responsible for an increase in the instances and severity of extreme weather. This is false. Millions of Americans are affected by extreme weather events every year, however, data do not show instances of extreme weather are becoming more common or more severe. This fact is confirmed by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“Raging wildfires exacerbated by drought in the West; severe downpours across the Midwest, Northeast and South; deadly heat waves in the Pacific Northwest; hurricanes that unleashed destruction from the Gulf Coast up to New England: 2021 was a year when it became impossible for many Americans to ignore the extreme weather fueled by climate change,” writes Yahoo News.
Each of the weather events cited by Yahoo News did happen, but there is no evidence they were caused or exacerbated by climate change.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
“fuelled” by climate change. Note the story makes it sound as if they are Caused by climate change whereas they then use a meaningless word that is not “caused”. Because all they can actually demonstrate, using discredited methodologies, is that these events were more likely to happen (meaningless as they are not random) and worse somehow.
It’s disinformation at its finest.
Correct. ‘Climate change’ remains conspicuously undefined.
Other favourites which turn up very frequently are “linked to climate change” and “consistent with what scientists expect”.
As is often said, extraordinary claims call for extraordinary evidence. Compare this to “linked to” and “scientists expect”, which are admissions of having no evidence.
It’s an assertion game. Challenges to alarmist assertions are brushed aside one way or another.
Well put. In logic this is called “Argument by assertion” as no evidence or other reasoning is given. All bad weather, SLR and wildfires are now simply asserted to be driven by human caused climate change. The fallacy is breathtaking.
On the other hand we now have energy anguish which might turn the green tide. https://www.cfact.org/2022/01/07/energy-anguish-hits-britain/
Time to play these charlatans at their own game.
Fact Check the factcheckers. Over-rule them with facts and measured observations, as many have been doing.
The thing that’s missing is branding the sceptical Fact Check. There needs to be a group or entity that stands behind these claim and has bigger impact, rather than leaving it to individuals like Paul.
Won’t work. The Left poses as the moral high ground. Facts are rubber bullets.
The Left never admit they are wrong because they know what they are doing is the right thing. Think back to when Jeremy Corbin won the election. I know he didn’t get the most votes or the most seats but he won it right?
I believe the alarmists have boxed themselves into a corner, perhaps due to COP26 necessities, by overinflating the 2021 weather phenomena. They can’t go on with 2022, 2023 2024 all being EXTREME. I predict about a decade of alarmism, perhaps less, before credibility is lost. Meanwhile Chinese and Natural CO2 will accrete at 2ppm a year for ever and the Moana Loa sawtooth will preserve its idiosyncratic shape. So there’ll be a crux when the CO2 level clearly isn’t affecting the weather. Meanwhile we’ve never seen the 2016 El Niño peak ever again. Wrap up.
“I predict about a decade of alarmism, perhaps less, before credibility is lost.”
I’d love to agree but I’ve been saying this for a very long time now and, decades after being disproven, the climate hysteria just keeps rolling on.