The climate system is not an oscillator. It has oscillatory components, but the whole system is a gradient-driven heat engine. It moves energy from where there is a lot of…
Category: extreme weather
What Climate Science Actually Says About Extreme Weather
2025 Climate Speaker – Roger Pielke, Jr. (The Honest Broker)
Tell the Truth, The Guardian and NBC, High Weather Disaster Costs Aren’t Due to Climate Change
As should be obvious to any honest observer exercising the least bit of common sense, the reason for rising disaster costs is clear, the expanding bullseye effect.
Climate Change Is Not to Blame for the Rising Costs of Natural Disasters, NBC
However, there is no real-world data showing such disasters are becoming more common or deadly, or any indication whatsoever that human greenhouse gas emissions cause or contribute to them. Nor…
Hail No! NBC, Climate Change Isn’t Making Hail More Damaging
NBC’s hailstorm climate segment is a masterclass in misleading science communication and seems to be more about funding than science.
Storm Chasing with Michael Mann: How to Stay in the Climate Spotlight
In summary, this paper offers a case study in climate science as performance art. There’s an obligatory nod to uncertainty, a parade of statistical significance at thresholds so generous even…
Thanks, NewScientist, for Admitting Climate Change Isn’t Making the Jet Stream More Erratic
A new study challenges the idea that climate change is producing large waves in the jet stream.
Thanks, NewScientist, for Admitting Climate Change Isn’t Making the Jet Stream More Erratic
The NewScientist, and the AGU study it references, should have quit when they were ahead. They should have published their unalarming findings about climate change’s lack of an impact on…
No, Euronews, Europe is Not Suffering ‘Serious Impacts’ from Climate Change
All in all, this appears to be yet another scare story that does not take all the available evidence into account when attempting to attribute weather events to climate change.…
Study: Ancient Megafloods Dwarf Today’s Extremes — But You Won’t Hear That on the Evening News
Paleoclimate records reveal prehistoric floods that far exceed anything we see today — undermining claims that modern flooding is “unprecedented” or driven solely by climate change.
Wrong, Associated Press, Climate Change is not Triggering More Extreme Weather
The article is false. Evidence clearly indicates that no changes in extreme weather trends are found in the data and, as such, no changes can be tied to climate change.
Why do Atmospheric Rivers Occur?
Meteorologists favorite diagnostic for atmospheric rivers is integrated water vapor transport (IVT), which is the amount of water vapor times the wind speed, summed up in the vertical (that is…
Major Storm Pounds Western US…Reaches Northeastern States This Weekend…Very Cold Next Week…Mid-Week East Coast Storm Threat
A major storm system will pound the western states during the next couple of days and it will then trek across the nation and wreak havoc in the eastern states…
BBC Try To Wriggle Out Of Extreme Weather Claims
In short, they have tried to wriggle out by claiming that they never said the events were linked to climate change! This is of course contradicted by that opening paragraph,…
Wrong, World Meteorological Organization, There Is No Evidence “Climate Change Impacts Grip[ed] Globe in 2024”
The WMO’s “Climate Change Impacts Grip Globe in 2024” exemplifies the misuse of short-term weather events to promote a long-term climate crisis narrative. Such sensationalism not only undermines public understanding…
No, Associated Press, Extreme Weather Events in a Single Year Are Not Climate Change
While the photographs featured in the Seattle Times article are evocative, it’s essential to approach the subject of weather and climate with a clear understanding of the distinction between the two, and…
Are Eastern Pacific Cyclones Become More Frequent or Stronger?
We experienced a rare, extreme event and there is no reason to expect that such storms will become more frequent as the planet slowly warms.
Now, That’s the Bomb!
“The rapidly intensifying low-pressure system is expected to create treacherous conditions for shipping and coastal communities alike. The National Weather Service has issued a Hurricane Force Wind Warning, indicating the…
The (Pacific Northwest) Storm Reveals Itself. The Eastside Wind Threat
Bottom line: strong winds from the east, gusting to 40-70 mph, will occur east of Puget Sound and will be stronger towards the Cascades. Expect substantial vegetation damage and many…
NC Floods, CA Drought, and The Role of Randomness
There seems to be some misunderstanding about 100-year events. These almost always apply to a specific location. So, you could have 100-year events every year in the U.S., and as…
Forbes is Right That Weather Isn’t Getting More Extreme, Wrong About Other Climate Claims
From ClimateREALISM By Linnea Lueken A recent article at Forbes, “Four Kinds Of Killer Weather Extremes: An Achilles Heel Problem For Climate Predictors,” is a mixed bag of correct and incorrect…
Stick to Finance, Financial Times; Weather is Not Getting Worse
The juxtaposition throughout the article of the two discussing climate change and policy, including how people need to change the way they eat and take vacations, with frequent breaks to…
No, Press Democrat, One Hottest Month Means Nothing in The Scheme of Climate Change
Fortunately, Mother Nature changed the weather patterns to cooler than normal, and Golis ended up looking like a fool.
What The Met Office Did Not Tell You About Extreme Temperatures
When we combine hot and cold together, there is no trend at all, either up or down:
