The primary
"negative effect"
of "climate change"
is an imaginary
coming global
warming catastrophe,
predicted every year,
for the past 30 years,
that will never come !
In fact, if you
want to worry
about the
future climate,
you should worry
about the end of our
very pleasant climate,
called an interglacial,
and the beginning
of the next
major glaciation,
which will cover
Chicago and Detroit
with thick ice,
just like we had
20,000 years ago.
Of course that's
real science, unlike
climate change
scaremongering
which is junk science,
( Carbon Dioxide is
a false boogeyman
used to scare people
into wanting a more
powerful government
-- the modern, indirect
sales pitch for socialism --
a completely false claim
that a much more
powerful government
is needed to fight
"CO2 pollution",
and save the planet
for the children ).
The virtue signaling,
and the false claim of
saving the planet for the
children, tugs at your heart.
But, in fact,
the false demonization
of carbon dioxide,
which is actually
the staff of life,
is the biggest hoax in
recorded history.
And it's being done for
political power --
because our planet
does not need saving --
our climate is wonderful,
and has been improving
since the late 1600's.
The claimed +1 degree C.
global warming since 1880,
is a very rough estimate,
with very little
Southern Hemisphere
data before World War II,
and more wild guesses,
for areas with no data,
than actual thermometer
measurements.
Even with
all the wild guesses,
called "infilling",
the +1 degree C. change
in the past 138 years
is perfectly normal,
and harmless.
And did you know that the
average temperature,
since 2003
has barely changed !
Of course you didn't know that,
because the CO2 scaremongers
didn't want you to know !
Refuting the
most common
negative effects
claimed about
"climate change":
FALSE CLAIM #1:
Climate change
is causing
heat waves
to increase
at an
alarming rate !
FACTS:
There has been
no detectable
long-term increase
in US heat waves,
or elsewhere
in the world.
Most all-time
record high
temperatures
in the US,
happened
in the 1930s.
Thirty-eight states
set their all-time
record high
temperatures
before 1960
( 23 states in the 1930s ! ).
The number of US
100 degrees F.,
95F, and 90F days
per year ,
has been in a
declining trend,
since the 1930s.
The EPA
Heat Wave Index,
confirms the 1930s
as the hottest decade.
James Hansen,
while working
at NASA in 1999,
said this
about the U.S.
temperature record
“In the U.S.
the warmest decade
was the 1930s
and the warmest year
was 1934”.
All the continents
on our planet
recorded their
all-time record
high temperatures
before 1980.
FALSE CLAIM #2:
Climate change
is causing
more hurricanes and
stronger hurricanes.
FACTS:
The long-term trend
in the number,
and intensity,
of global
hurricane activity,
has remained flat.
This is true despite
much better
open ocean detection
of hurricanes,
than before
the 1960s,
when many
short-lived storms
at sea would have
been missed.
The number of US
landfalling hurricanes,
and major hurricanes,
has been on the decline
since the late 1800s.
For the US,
2005 holds the record
for five category 4 and
four category 5
impact storms.
After the
very active
2005 season,
and before
two major storms
hit the US in 2017,
we had 4324 days
( almost 12 years )
without a major
hurricane landfall,
exceeding the prior
record 8-year lull,
back in the 1860s.
FALSE CLAIM #3
Climate change
is causing more ,
and stronger,
tornadoes.
FACTS:
Strong tornadoes
have had a decline
in frequency
since the 1950s.
Tornado detection
has improved
with the addition of
NEXRAD,
the growth of
the trained
spotter networks,
storm chasers
armed with
cellular data
( the proliferation of
cell phone cameras
and social media ).
This shows up most
in the weak
EF0 tornado count ,
but for storms
from moderate EF1
to strong EF 3+ intensity,
the trend slope
has been flat, to down,
despite improved detection.
FALSE CLAIM #4
Climate change
is increasing
the magnitude
and frequency
of droughts
and floods.
FACTS:
NOAA found
there is
no evidence
that floods
and droughts
are increasing
because of
climate change.
In testimony
before Congress,
Professor
Roger Pielke, Jr.
said:
“It is misleading,
and just plain incorrect,
to claim that disasters
associated with hurricanes,
tornadoes, floods,
or droughts
have increased
on climate timescales,
either in
the United States,
or globally."
"Droughts have,
for the most part,
become shorter,
less frequent,
and cover
a smaller portion
of the U.S.
over the
last century.”
“The good news is
U.S. flood damage
is sharply down
over 70 years."
FALSE CLAIM #5
Climate change
has increased
U.S. wildfires.
FACTS:
The National Interagency
Fire Center has recorded
the number of fires
and acreage affected
since 1985.
This data show
the number of fires
trending down slightly,
though the
acreage burned
had increased,
before leveling off
over the last 20 years.
The 2016 2017 winter
was a very wet one
in the mountains
in the west US,
and in parts of
the northern Sierra,
was the wettest / snowiest
winter on record.
Wet winters
cause more
spring growth,
that will dry up
in the dry summer
heat season,
and become tinder
for late summer
and early fall fires,
before the seasonal
rains return.
When it comes to
considering
the number of deaths
and structures destroyed
in California,
the seven-fold increase
in California population,
from 1930 to 2017,
must be considered.
Lightning and campfires
caused most historic fires;
today most fires
are the result of
power lines
igniting trees.
The number
of power lines
have increased
proportionately
with population growth,
so most of the damage
from wild fires
in California,
is really a result of
increased population,
not climate change.
The increased fire danger
is greatly aggravated
by poor government
forest management.
Five more
false claims
in the next article: