{"id":278774,"date":"2023-09-14T20:20:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=278774"},"modified":"2023-09-14T20:20:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:20:21","slug":"true-indianapolis-star-climate-change-is-not-theoretical-but-its-connection-to-extreme-weather-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=278774","title":{"rendered":"True, Indianapolis Star, \u201cClimate Change is not \u2018Theoretical,\u2019\u201d but Its Connection to Extreme Weather Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Indianapolis Star<\/em> (IndyStar) published a story claiming climate change is causing dangerous weather changes in Indiana. Climate change is a fact, but data shows, contrary to what is implied by the expert interviewed by the IndyStar, that neither flooding, nor hot temperatures have become more extreme or common in Indiana than they have been historically in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IndyStar reporter Karl Schneider interviewed Gabe Filippelli, executive director of Indiana University\u2019s Environmental Resilience Institute, for his story, \u201cClimate change not \u2018theoretical, or even debatable,\u2019 an IU expert says. What\u2019s the solution?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClimate change already is affecting the everyday lives of Hoosiers and experts at Indiana University are exploring potential solutions,\u201d writes Schneider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do have some significant short-term challenges and one of them is flooding,\u201d Filippelli told Schneider. \u201cWe\u2019re already seeing a lot more extreme rainfall events and \u2026 we\u2019re going to see even more into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe other issue is extreme heat. We see an increase in extreme heat events globally, but also right here in Indiana \u2026,\u201d Filippelli continued to opine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I say opine because the data on flooding and extreme heat in Indiana refute his claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerning extreme rainfall and flooding, data from the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that Indiana\u2019s single day record for precipitation<\/a> was set in August 1905, more than 118 years of global warming ago. Also, although records do indicate the mid-western United States is receiving modestly more precipitation now on average during the present period of modest warming than it did in the early and mid-20th<\/sup> century, this has not led to a worsening of flooding. In fact, in its most recent report<\/a> the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it has detected no changes in flooding and that it can attribute no particular floods or patterns in floods to human caused climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerning extreme heat, once again data from the NCEI refute Filippelli\u2019s uncorroborated assertion that extreme heat is increasing. Indiana\u2019s single day maximum temperature record<\/a>, of 116\u2109 was set in 1936, 87 years of climate change ago. Indeed, more record hot temperatures in the United States were set during the dust bowl decade of the 1930s than in any other decade before or since, and far more record high temperatures for the country were set prior to 1950, before the recent period of modest warming, than have been set or tied in the past 70 years of climate change. Only six high temperature records have been set or tied since 2000 during what most alarmists call the hottest two decades on record. By contrast, 25 state maximum temperature records set in the 1930s still stand as records today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither flooding nor extreme heat have worsened during the recent period of modest warming. Had Schneider checked the data, rather than relying on \u201cexpert opinion,\u201d he could easily have established this fact and produced an accurate story, rather than one more in a long line of climate crisis scare stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to directing The Heartland Institute’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, Burett puts Environment & Climate News together, is the editor of Heartland’s Climate Change Weekly email, and the host of the Environment & Climate News Podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\u00a0Indianapolis Star\u00a0(IndyStar) published a story claiming climate change is causing dangerous weather changes in Indiana. Climate change is a fact, but data shows, contrary to what is implied by the expert interviewed by the IndyStar, that neither flooding, nor hot temperatures have become more extreme or common in Indiana than they have been historically in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":278779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691820674,691818544,691822618,691822617,691822619],"class_list":{"0":"post-278774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-extreme-heat","10":"tag-flooding","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-the-indianapolis-star-indystar","13":"tag-u-n-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/07960560d-b6b9-4928-908f-c36e4f11badf-Storms_mk_01.webp?fit=2399%2C1349&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1awm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":293081,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293081","url_meta":{"origin":278774,"position":0},"title":"Wrong, Kansas City Star, Climate Change Isn\u2019t Worsening Weather in Kansas or Missouri","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"29\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Kansas City Star\u00a0ran an opinion piece claiming climate change is already making weather more extreme in Kansas and Missouri. 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