By Paul Homewood
The BBC continues to give the myth of “inclement weather”:
Heat waves, deadly floods and wildfires all mean that people are experiencing the link between extreme weather and climate change.
Emissions from burning fossil fuels have trapped heat in the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial era. The result is, average temperature has increased by 1.1 degrees Celsius.
This extra energy is distributed unevenly and flares up at extremes like what we’ve seen. Without reducing global emissions, this cycle will continue.
Here are four ways that climate change is contributing to extreme weather.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-enosystem-58073295
Here are four:
For some reason they don’t mention reducing the rate of severe cold! However, as the curve shows, the new weather is not so extreme, when both hot and cold are taken into account.
The graph can also be a temperature curve for Newcastle and London. Is London’s climate harsher than Newcastle’s? Obviously not.
They then continued to discuss heat domes, but there was no evidence that they were increasing or related to global warming.
This ignores basic meteorology!
The dry weather is not caused by “hot sun”, but by anti-cyclonic weather, which is also the cause of hot weather in summer. But just because average temperatures are higher doesn’t mean a location is experiencing more of these weather patterns.
For drought, even IPCC could find no evidence that they were getting worse worldwide. According to AR6, while some regions like the Mediterranean may be drier, others show the opposite, such as India. We certainly know that large swaths of Africa, the Middle East and Asia suffered catastrophic droughts throughout the 1970s, as a direct result of global cooling.
In any case, it is widely accepted that a warmer world is also a wetter world.
Except there’s no evidence that wildfires are getting worse:
Again, the IPCC considered extreme rainfall in AR6 and little evidence to support this claim. The only area with “high confidence” in the increase and intensity of extreme rainfall is the central US, where it simply ended the devastating droughts of the 1930s and ’50s. Likewise, increased monsoon rainfall has benefited India and other parts of Asia.
There is an assumption that extreme rainfall is “bad”. In fact, it often makes the difference between drought and plenty.
The more concerning issue is whether the flooding is getting worse. The IPCC also looked at this and found no global trends, only unavoidable regional variations:
The BBC knows that the public isn’t intimidated by a slightly warmer climate – on the contrary, most people would welcome it.
As a result, there are more and more desperate and deceptive attempts to spread lies about inclement weather.
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