A report on extreme weather has been put together by the folks at Climate Depot point Com (CD) which summarizes the latest peer reviewed research on extreme weather. You will find it under its Special Reports section.
There are organizations whose job it is to track, count, summarize and maintain historical records on extreme weather such as hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, forest fires, floods and snowstorms to mention a few. If you go to the CD report and check their sources you will find that almost all severe weather events have been on a downward trend for the last 30 to 60 years.
You can track forest fire occurrences at the National Interagency Fire Center to witness the downtrend. Smokey the Bear would be proud. This is a government agency funded by US taxpayers and not a private NGO funded by the oil industry. So far 2013 is among the quietest fire seasons on record. Go check the trend. Forest fires are down 15% worldwide.
You can find data on hurricanes at the US NOAA National Hurricane Center. Dr. Ryan Maue’s site brings you up to date info on hurricanes and provides graphical format for the data. The US has not been hit by a major(cat3+) hurricane in over 7 years. Florida has not been hit by a hurricane in over 7 years. Both of these are records for the longest period of absence in the data. Obama has faced only 3 hurricanes during his first term as president which is less than any other president in history. In 1886 there were 7 hurricanes that hit the US. It was the busiest season in US history. Australia has seen a 60% decrease in hurricanes making landfall. That study appeared in Climate Dynamics. Does this sound to you like hurricanes are becoming more frequent or more severe? Yes, they will cause more damage because there are more of us with more stuff to get in the way of a hurricane. But that has nothing to do with the amount of CO2 in the air. How come the article above didn’t mention any of this?
You can find trends on tornadoes at the US NOAA National Climatic Data Center. Tornadoes have been trending down since the 1950s. 2013 is a particularly slow year despite the two whoppers that hit Oklahoma in the spring.
The trends in drought and flood do not show an increasing trend. NOAA confirmed that the 2012 US drought was unrelated to climate change. A study of drought in the US southwest provides no evidence of an increase in its occurrence. Crop growth during the times of increasing atmospheric CO2 has not resulted in more crop failure contrary to prediction. Soy, rice, corn, wheat are all in bumper crop mode. Crop output has tripled over the last 50 years.
Floods in Europe have not seen an increase in frequency over time. Studies in Spain, France, Germany, UK, Switzerland and Italy show no increase in flood damage over the past contrary to expectations of Global Climate Models (GCMs). Floods are another fail of the CAGW narrative.
In short, extreme weather of any sort is not following the storyline of climate alarmists who tell us that severe weather will increase as CO2 growth in the atmosphere continues unabated. We are not seeing it. Mother Nature didn’t get their memo.
Can anybody point to a year when they think the weather was idyllic? At any time in any year for which we have records you will find that severe weather occurred somewhere. It was never all fluffy white clouds and gentle summer rain. We are not experiencing anything that is unusual or hasn’t occurred in the past when CO2 was at much lower levels. Seven landfalling hurricanes appeared in 1886 when CO2 was below 300 ppm. We now have almost 400 ppm. Will we get seven in 2013? NOAA expects only 6 to 9 hurricanes total this season(2013) whether they make landfall or not.
CAGW is when scientists treat regularly occurring weather as unusual. Mother Nature, once again, reveals herself to be a CAGW denier.
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