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• revelio 3y ago
  The wrongness I'm pointing out is the Yale article, circa 2023. It makes false claims about the past, so what else are they saying that's false? Re: droughts and floods. Good example. These aren't getting worse. The media and academics like to claim they are, but they are wrong. Select the "Palmer Drought Severity Index" here from official US data and plot "All months" from 1895 to 2023 i.e. all data. Observe that there's no trend: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/national/time-series/110/pdsi/all/4/1895-2023?base_prd=true&begbaseyear=1901&endbaseyear=2000 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-gla... Then select "Precipitation". Observe that there's only a very slight trend of 0.18 inches/decade. That's tiny and not enough of different in average rain to change the incidence of flooding. Remember that the actual climate claim is only about 0.1 degree of change per decade since ~1980, i.e. only about half a degree of warming since the end of the period of global cooling. Half a degree isn't enough to have any visible impact on weather patterns. The climate just isn't that sensitive.