{"id":273475,"date":"2023-08-14T18:51:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273475"},"modified":"2023-08-14T18:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:51:41","slug":"no-mr-kirby-and-cnn-all-the-severe-storms-are-not-caused-by-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273475","title":{"rendered":"No, Mr. Kirby and CNN, \u201cAll the severe storms\u201d are NOT Caused by Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot from CNN This Morning.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

John Kirby, White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, told the audience at \u201cCNN This Morning\u201d that President Joe Biden is still considering declaring a climate emergency, and that \u201call\u201d severe weather we have seen lately are \u201cdefinitely\u201d because of climate change. This is false. There is no way to link any individual storm to long term climate change, and severe weather events, contrary to mainstream media portrayals, have not become more numerous or severe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirby told<\/a>\u00a0CNN This Morning anchor Poppy Harlow that the Biden administration is laser-focused on climate change. He also claimed that extreme weather like storms, as well as natural disasters like the ongoing deadly wildfires in Hawaii, are due to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirby said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAll I can tell you is that, as an administration, we\u2019re going to stay focused on the climate crisis. It is front and center. It is right in front of us. And these wildfires and all the severe storms that we\u2019re \u2014 that we continue to see are definitely caused as a result of what\u2019s going on in the rising temperature across the globe. And so, we\u2019ve got to treat this seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is exactly the kind of false narrative that \u201cattribution scientists\u201d have been cultivating for years, which\u00a0Climate Realism<\/em>\u00a0refutes after nearly every major weather event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, climate scientists understand that\u00a0weather is not climate<\/a>. Climate is measured over thirty year periods of time, whereas weather occurs over the course of hours to days. If there were long term measured trends that showed increasing severity of weather events, Kirby and the Biden administration would at least have some evidence to hang their claims on, but real-world data show no such trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data on wildfires, for example, show a declining trend. You read that right, wildfires aren\u2019t getting worse. In the\u00a0Climate Realism<\/em>\u00a0post \u201cRight, Wall Street Journal, Wildfires Are Declining as Climate Changes<\/a>,\u201d H. Sterling Burnett points out that satellite data show a 25 percent decrease in acreage lost to fires since 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the recent fires that tragically claimed dozens of lives and destroyed much of Maui\u2019s town of Lahaina, again there is no evidence that a modest warming of the global average surface temperature was the cause. Instead, as detailed\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0by atmospheric scientist Cliff Mass, a combination of invasive dry grasses, poor land management, drought, strong winds, and the natural topological features of the Hawaiian islands, converged into a tinderbox scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trade winds that developed the day leading up to the fires were caused by an unlucky combination of low pressure from hurricane Dora to the south of the islands, and high pressure to the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mass explains that conditions earlier this year likely led to more burnable grass that was dried out later, \u201c[t]he situation this year on Maui was made even more dangerous on Hawaii because the past half-year was WETTER and COOLER than normal, which enhanced grass growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extreme weather events not related to wildfires have likewise seen no \u201cenhancement\u201d from climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other recent weather events that the mainstream media blamed on climate change this year, claims dutifully refuted at\u00a0Climate Realism<\/em>, include, for example;\u00a0heatwaves<\/a>\u00a0in the American southwest, a\u00a0hot water temperature reading<\/a>\u00a0in Florida,\u00a0flooding<\/a>\u00a0in Vermont, and \u201cweather whiplash<\/a>\u201d in India. Long term data do not support the claim that any of these weather events are occurring more frequently or becoming more severe when they occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claim that various storms and heat waves can be attributed to climate change comes from various groups that practice \u201cclimate attribution,\u201d which as\u00a0Climate Realism<\/em>\u00a0has discussed in the past,\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, and\u00a0here<\/a>, for instance, are not scientifically rigorous or honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attribution groups compare real world data \u2013sometimes while the weather event is barely even over yet\u2014to computer simulations that try to estimate what the climate conditions would be like had humans never started burning fossil fuels. They start out by assuming that climate change played a role in enhancing the severity of the weather event \u2014 never the other way around\u2014and then attempt to model it and assign a percentage \u201clikelihood\u201d for the event occurring. This is not science, but rather trying to shoehorn data to fit preconceptions about the consequences of climate change. Alarmists in the mainstream media never report on these attribution studies as though there is any uncertainty involved, despite them being more akin to sideshow crystal ball gazing than rigorously tested scientific claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As shown in\u00a0Climate at a Glance<\/em><\/a>, historical data is available for the range of weather events making headlines in recent years, and more often than not, there is no worsening trend. The Biden administration would more effectively help communities and people harmed by severe weather events, if they focused, not on climate change, but on the real causes of natural disasters and how to anticipate and mitigate them. Such efforts would help communities harden infrastructure, improve warning systems, and speed response and recovery, so when extreme weather events occur, they destroy fewer lives and properties, and so that disruptions from such events are less severe and long-lasting, regardless of climate change or fossil fuel use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.heartland.org\/about-us\/who-we-are\/linnea-lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linnea Lueken is a Research Fellow with the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While she was an intern with The Heartland Institute in 2018, she co-authored a Heartland Institute Policy Brief “Debunking Four Persistent Myths About Hydraulic Fracturing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Kirby, White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, told the audience at \u201cCNN This Morning\u201d that President Joe Biden is still considering declaring a climate emergency, and that \u201call\u201d severe weather we have seen lately are \u201cdefinitely\u201d because of climate change. 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