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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!

1. Charles B. Strozier and Kelly A. Berkell, How Climate Change Helped ISIS

2. Elijah Wolfson, Ebola and Climate Change: Are Humans Responsible for the Severity of the Current Outbreak?

3. 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.

Climate Depot:

Hurricanes: 3,264 Days Without a Major (Cat 3 +) Hurricane Strike – ‘Nearly 9 years…the last being Wilma in October, 2005′

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’

U.S. Heatwaves: ‘The frequency of 90 degree days in the US has plummeted. with three of the five mildest summers occurring since 2004′

Wildfires: 2014 – Quietest Fire Season Of The Decade according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center data — US Forest Fires Near Historic Lows: ‘Burn acreage is much less than half of normal’ according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center

Tags: Ebola, extreme weather, global warming, ISIS

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