The editorial board of the USA Today, which kills vast amounts of trees and and uses lots of fossil fuels to make and distribute their newspaper, is super enthused
Case for climate change grows ever stronger
Could proof grow any more powerful that humanity is responsible for a dangerously warming planet? Scientists studying Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are finding ever more troubling evidence.
Last year was the hottest on record, according to a report late last week from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report, by more than 450 scientists from 60 nations, also found that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and global sea levels are at their highest levels on record.
Just as troubling were draft findings destined for the quadrennial National Climate Assessment. Scientists from 13 federal agencies found that a rapid rise in temperatures since the 1980s in the United States represents the warmest period in 1,500 years.
The impacts from human-caused warming are no distant threat, the scientists concluded, but are punishing populations right now with weather made worse by climate change: more heat and drought in the American Southwest, larger and fiercer storms along the Pacific, and greater rainfall elsewhere.
At the end of the day, none of this shows actual scientific proof that climatic changes during the Modern Warm Period are mostly/solely caused by Mankind. Correlation is not causation. Worse weather? Than what? Can they prove that it was worse than in the past? Can they prove that it is abnormal? Can they prove that it wouldn’t happen this way absent a rise in CO2? If CO2 was under their vaunted 350ppm, would hurricanes, drought, floods, and tornadoes, among others, be different?Why were the previous warm periods warmer than today despite lower CO2 levels?
This is typical fear monger and pushing “consensus”, which isn’t science. But, then, this whole thing is not about science.
Meanwhile, via Moonbattery, we have the the top 12 climate lies debunked
Still can’t name anything specific, I see. “More droughts and more rain” is about as non-specific as one can get. “More”than what? The last 5yrs? 50yrs? 100yrs? Its a mystery, only to be solved by a carbon tax.