Ahhhhhh… The smell of fresh science. Pielke introduces a new concept: Linking current events to climate change and the Bullshit button.
Quoted from the Pielke Article:
The full IPCC Special Report on Extremes
is out today, and I have just gone through the sections in Chapter 4
that deal with disasters and climate change. Kudos to the IPCC — they
have gotten the issue just about right, where “right” means that the
report accurately reflects the academic literature on this topic. Over
time good science will win out over the rest — sometimes it just takes a
little while.
A few quotable quotes from the report (from Chapter 4):
- “There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends
in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or
anthropogenic climate change” - “The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable
to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and
extratropical storms and tornados” - “The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses”
This quote, however fun it is, does not give you enough info to play with…
Please read the entire article here:
Then when done have fun with the rest of his blog… ;)