tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post2776529173819221863..comments2024-03-19T07:10:27.303-07:00Comments on Quark Soup by David Appell: More on the Difficulties of Attributing Extreme EventsDavid Appellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03318269033139447591noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-88256962271215266762012-03-28T22:05:38.168-07:002012-03-28T22:05:38.168-07:00Reportedly, even the IPCC doesn't believe ther...Reportedly, even the IPCC doesn't believe there is any evidence for co2 causing extreme events.<br /><br />AGW scientific theory doesn't support it and the data doesn't either.<br /><br />"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."<br /><br />http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2012/03/handy-bullshit-button-on-disasters-and.html#comment-form<br /><br />A few quotable quotes from the report (from Chapter 4):<br /><br />"There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change"<br /><br />"The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados"<br /><br />"The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses"charlesHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17798022842779057473noreply@blogger.com