Man caused global warming is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated by man on mankind.
Politicians rush to blame carbon emissions while their supporters flood social media warning of the inevitable doomsday caused by climate change. It all becomes one message: If we do not pass sweeping climate legislation now, more devastation is on the horizon.
But there is one inconvenient truth for these protests: the data do not support the narrative.
As the Heritage Foundation’s chief statistician, Kevin Dayaratna, points out in his new book, “Cooling the Climate Hysteria,” the claim that climate change is causing more and stronger tornadoes and hurricanes in the U.S. “is unsupported by the relevant trend data.”
According to meteorologists Joe D’Aleo and Roy W. Spencer, there is no foundation to the rising rhetoric that climate change is driving an increase in storm frequency and severity. The long-term numbers within their chapters show no significant trend of increasing frequency or violence of U.S. storms over several decades. In fact, both storm types are well within their historical norms. Some have even trended downward since 1970.
Looking at hurricanes, Mr. D’Aleo finds that from 1900 to today there is no significant increase in the number of or intensity of hurricanes making landfall in the United States. Data show that some of the deadliest and most powerful hurricanes, such as the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, or Camille in 1969, happened before the rise of global CO2 emissions.
Tornado data show a similar story. Mr. Spencer finds the average number of EF2-EF5 tornadoes, which cause considerable amounts of damage, have trended downwards in the past 70 years despite emissions.
Twisting the truth: Extreme weather and the climate narrative
As America braces for another storm season, only the media storms are more predictable than upcoming hurricanes and tornadoes. Even before the dust settles after natural disasters, headlines often warn that gusts of wind and funnel clouds are proof the Earth is boiling.Politicians rush to blame carbon emissions while their supporters flood social media warning of the inevitable doomsday caused by climate change. It all becomes one message: If we do not pass sweeping climate legislation now, more devastation is on the horizon.
But there is one inconvenient truth for these protests: the data do not support the narrative.
As the Heritage Foundation’s chief statistician, Kevin Dayaratna, points out in his new book, “Cooling the Climate Hysteria,” the claim that climate change is causing more and stronger tornadoes and hurricanes in the U.S. “is unsupported by the relevant trend data.”
According to meteorologists Joe D’Aleo and Roy W. Spencer, there is no foundation to the rising rhetoric that climate change is driving an increase in storm frequency and severity. The long-term numbers within their chapters show no significant trend of increasing frequency or violence of U.S. storms over several decades. In fact, both storm types are well within their historical norms. Some have even trended downward since 1970.
Looking at hurricanes, Mr. D’Aleo finds that from 1900 to today there is no significant increase in the number of or intensity of hurricanes making landfall in the United States. Data show that some of the deadliest and most powerful hurricanes, such as the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, or Camille in 1969, happened before the rise of global CO2 emissions.
Tornado data show a similar story. Mr. Spencer finds the average number of EF2-EF5 tornadoes, which cause considerable amounts of damage, have trended downwards in the past 70 years despite emissions.