Greenhouse Gas Impacts
The New York Times claims that manmade greenhouse gases are “intensifying” “drought, hurricanes and floods.”
IN FACT, droughts, hurricanes, and floods have been generally stable for as far back as reliable data extend. Other alleged impacts of climate change have also stayed level or improved, such as foliage productivity, forest mass & tree cover, extinctions, coral reef island area, mainland coastal area, tornadoes, agricultural production, weather fatalities, and weather economic damages.
Frequent claims that those measures are worsening suffer from five fatal flaws:
- They cherry pick short-term trends caused by natural variability while ignoring long-term comprehensive data.
- They use deficient datasets that become increasingly incomplete as they extend back in time.
- They fail to account for factors like population growth and economic development.
- They are based on future predictions of computer models, a class of studies that is notoriously unreliable.
- They are blatant falsehoods.
