Tag Archives: Extreme weather

Long Term Tornado Trends

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

By Paul Homewood It seems that tornadoes, or the lack of them, are back in the news at the moment.  American Meteorological Society President, Dr Marshall Shepherd, seems to think it is unfair to mention low tornado numbers, saying it … Continue reading →

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Don’t let Cook and Lewandowsky see this…

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

…because you might be accused of participating in conspiracy ideation. Here’s the premise from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: The occasion for their update is a recent report by the Australian Climate Commission, a government body put established to advocate for … Continue reading →

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Blockheaded thinking on well known weather patterns and ‘extreme weather’

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

I had to laugh at this statement from the press release below: “What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary waves almost freeze in their tracks for weeks.” Gosh,”frozen patterns” like Rex blocks have been … Continue reading →

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Another climate billboard

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Of course we all know about that other ill-fated unabomber billboard last year that went over like a lead radiosonde balloon, but I like this one by CFACT (minus the date controversy of course). Drive by this! Science tells us … Continue reading →

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New Climate Central writer tries to connect climate and extreme weather with love of bigger destructive storms

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

From the weather is not climate unless we say it is department comes this disturbing admission. From Tom Nelson, an illustration of the sort of defective thinking we see in some people who think climate and weather have no distinction: … Continue reading →

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Wuebbles gone wild – hilarious claims of ‘wall to wall’ severe weather on cable news is not science

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

A couple of days ago there was this PR from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I decided it was just too ridiculous to get any traction. I was wrong, an even more ridiculous press release followed this one. Only … Continue reading →

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2012 ranks as 54th in ‘extreme weather’ events

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

Paul Homewood ranks the data from NOAA/NCDC in a pragmatic way, and comes up with this graph. Figure 8

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NYT pushes crazy claims about “extreme weather” but public interest wanes

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

From Tom Neslon who writes: Barking madness in the New York Times: Global warming blamed for coldest winter in China in 30 years and many other extreme cold events; story illustrated with a photo of snow on the palm trees … Continue reading →

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Over-insuring the gullible: The Hartford offers ‘extreme weather insurance’

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

UPDATE: graph of damage losses including 2012 posted below. It says all that needs to be said. This ad is running in rotation at the NYT today, and it needs an application of Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.’s handy bullshit button.

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Introducing The New WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page

Posted on December 8, 2012 by

(Photo credits: NOAA) By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page. Realizing the difficulty in selling “Global Warming” when the globe hasn’t warmed in the last 16 years, … Continue reading →

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An open letter to the U.N from climate skeptics

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Published in the Financial Post today: OPEN CLIMATE LETTER TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL: Current scientific knowledge does not substantiate Ban Ki-Moon assertions on weather and climate, say 125 scientists. Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, … Continue reading →

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Another WUWT.TV video, Mike Smith, severe weather expert

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Certified Consulting Meteorologist Mike Smith of WeatherData Inc. in Wichita, KS, a world renowned expert on severe weather, talks about the issues of trying to connect weather and climate and where these issues fail. 

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More WUWT.TV video segments – Joe D’Aleo on Hurricane Sandy and extreme weather

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

I continue with uploading videos from the 24 hour WUWT.TV Gore-a-thon on November 14-15th seen live here on WUWT. This post contains two segments, one that was seen during the live session on Hurricane Sandy, and one that was a … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing the WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page

Posted on November 23, 2012 by

(Photo credits: NOAA) By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Your help is needed in building the new WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page. My recent article A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – “Extreme Weather” Update appears to have struck … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Climate data, extreme weather, flooding, heat wave, hurricanes, measurement, records, tornadoes, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , | 118 Comments

U.N. leader: Sandy a lesson in climate change

Posted on November 10, 2012 by

From CBS/AP “United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says one of the lessons from Superstorm Sandy is the need for global action to deal with future climate shocks. A new round of global climate talks starts in Doha, Qatar on Nov. … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week – USA Today duped into thinking severe weather began in 1980

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

From USA Today: Report: Climate change behind rise in weather disasters 12:53PM EST October 10. 2012 – The number of natural disasters per year has been rising dramatically on all continents since 1980, but the trend is steepest for North … Continue reading →

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Now, alarmists are making the public believe in the extreme weather boogeyman

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

A new survey has been released by Yale in cooperation with George Mason University. In it, 74% surveyed say “global warming is affecting weather in the United States”. Personally, I blame Seth Borenstein, Kevin Trenberth, Bill McKibben, Joe Romm and … Continue reading →

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Trenberth still hyping extreme weather events and climate change

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

Despite the recent editorial in Nature saying that there’s no current connection between the two, NCAR’s Dr. Kenneth Trenberth is going to pitch connections between extreme weather and climate change anyway at an upcoming seminar at the University of New … Continue reading →

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Unloading James Hansen’s Climate Dice

Posted on October 1, 2012 by

Guest post by Chip Knappenberger, originally on Master Resource “Today’s temperature ‘extremes’ are simply yesterday’s extremes warmed up a bit, partly from the heat-island effect. But they are not new events…. Hansen’s push on weather extremes is another case where the … Continue reading →

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Dear Al, watch the skies

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

From Al Gore’s Climate Reality project today: ============================================================= Dear Friend, In case you missed our big announcement Sunday, I wanted to share some exciting news: Our second annual 24 Hours of Reality event, 24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather … Continue reading →

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