From the University of Colorado Denver CU Denver study says upgrading infrastructure could reduce flood damage Outdated roads, bridges added to flood losses last year DENVER (Oct. 29, 2014) –…
Category: extreme weather
If you want to play the all-weather-is-influenced-by-global-warming game, you are going to lose
Chip Knappenberger writes: Should We Credit Global Warming When Disasters Don’t Happen? Every time there is some sort of weather disaster somewhere, someone blames it on human-caused global warming. Maybe…
Recent paper finds extreme weather & flooding became less frequent/extreme in Southwest England
Remember this past winter and the wailing over the floods in the Somerset levels? The paper, much like our WUWT analysis this past winter, totally contradicts the Guardian’s claims, which…
Any more extreme weather, and we're back to the LIA
Story submitted by Eric Worrall “…snowfall was much heavier than recorded before or since, and the snow lay on the ground for many months longer than it does today. Many…
Speaking of emotionalism and global warming…use of 'Extreme weather' as an emotional motivator is up nearly 1000 percent
Our previous story showcased a study that linked emotionalism and global warming activism. And so it goes with Network News, using the “if it bleeds it leads” strategy to make…
Extremes Of Temperature Decreasing In The US
Guest essay by Paul Homewood WUWT carried the story yesterday of the paper by Kodra & Ganguly, forecasting a wider range of temperature extremes in the future. According to the…
Heap big data science at Northeastern University
From Northeastern University via Eurekalert, and the department of modeling for 10 million dollars, this seems to be all they could come up with. Nature has a way however, of…
The hail in Spain falls at levels that are insane
A foot of hail in Spain. Surely Bill McKibben will be on the case to find some connection to global warming/climate change/climate disruption. Watch the video.
Claim: 'Arctic amplification' has actually reduced the risk of cold extremes in the Northern Hemisphere
From the University of Exeter Arctic warming linked to fewer European and US cold weather extremes, new study shows Climate change is unlikely to lead to more days of extreme…
Farmers Insurance Group pulls the plug on idiotic 'weather is climate' lawsuit
From the Insurance Journal: Insurer mysteriously withdraws high-profile lawsuit for climate damages in Chicago flooding case Evan Lehmann, E&E reporterClimateWire: Thursday, June 5, 2014 Farmers Insurance Co. has withdrawn its…
'Extreme Weather' – Before CO2 was being blamed for political points
Imagine the wailing about ’caused by climate change’ if this happened today. From NOAA: This Month in Climate History: May 27, 1896, St. Louis Tornado What remains the third most…
Model Based Extreme Rainfall Claims Not Supported By Actual Data
By Paul Homewood The Guardian, reporting on some recent research from Oxford University, comment: They say:
Climate change causes severe weather? 2014 tornado count about half of normal
Despite claims of “severe weather is increasing”, and even after several days of tornado activity in the Midwest and the South, 2014 is still below normal compared to recent years…
Not only do we have the slowest start to tornado season in a century, but tornado damage losses are in decline
So much for the “Years of Living Dangerously“ Dr. Roger Pielke Jr writes in the WSJ: So far in 2014, the United States has experienced fewer tornadoes than in any…
Some hype sorting on the claim that Asian pollution is intensifying Pacific Storms
Is Asian Pollution Intensifying Pacific Storms? Separating the Hype from Reality. By Cliff Mass The media over the past week have given a lot of play to a paper in…
Tornado season so far may be the slowest in a century
While there continues to be wailing about how climate change is supposedly making the weather more extreme, Greg Carbin, the man in charge at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) sends…
Holdren Is Wrong – Cold Winters Are Not Getting More Common
By Paul Homewood As WUWT points out, John Holdren is one of many who have tried to link the cold winter in the USA this year to global warming. In…
More tabloid climatology: gloom and doom about the jet stream, winters, and global warming
From the University of Utah, an argument that makes you wonder “what started it 4000 years ago”? Looking at another similar study, Joltin Joe Romm called that study Bombshell: Study…
Linking storms to climate change a 'distraction', say experts
From the University of Manchester, some sanity on extreme weather at last, even though they are still fully engaged in GHG reduction issues. Linking storms to climate change a ‘distraction’,…
An article and study from 1974 suggests global cooling would cause more extreme weather
Steve Goddard tips me to this article in the Canberra Times on May 16th, 1974: SUPPORT FOR A THEORY OF A COOLING WORLD It has some interesting claims in it…
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