Global warming – which has now been absent for 18 years – has been blamed for many things. In fact projects – in any field – which have managed to claim a possible link with global warming have had a much greater probability of being funded. Now global warming is blamed for the rise of ISIS, the spread of Ebola and even for altering the male-female ratio among humans.
In just the last few days these articles have appeared and pass for serious commentary in supposedly serious media!
- Charles B. Strozier and Kelly A. Berkell, How Climate Change Helped ISIS
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Elijah Wolfson, Ebola and Climate Change: Are Humans Responsible for the Severity of the Current Outbreak?
- Rachael Rettner, Climate Change Could Alter the Human Male-Female Ratio
Not only are global temperatures not increasing (and maybe decreasing), but there is no linkage between observed “extreme” weather and global warming.
Tornadoes:U.S. Tornado Count Plummeting to Record Low Levels Three Consecutive Years
Droughts:New Research Confirms Human CO2 Not Causing A Global Drought Increase – ‘Droughts in the U.S. are more frequent and more intense during COLDER periods’
Floods:Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. : ‘Are US Floods Increasing? The Answer is Still No’ — ‘A new paper out today shows flooding has not increased in U.S. over records of 85 to 127 years’ — Quick Flood Facts: ‘The world’s ten deadliest floods all occurred before 1976. The historical flood record is horrific. Here is a small sampling of news stories’
Tags: Ebola, extreme weather, global warming, ISIS