{"id":435576,"date":"2026-03-30T16:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=435576"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:41:09","slug":"x-weather-attributions-by-pseudo-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=435576","title":{"rendered":"X-Weather Attributions by Pseudo-Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ralph Alexander delves into the phony studies by worldweatherattribution.org in his GWPF paper\u00a0Contorted Science: The Flawed Logic of Extreme Event Attribution.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

London, 24\u00a0March.<\/strong>\u00a0Extreme weather attribution studies are based on flawed logic and generate misleading headlines, according to a new briefing paper from The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\u00a0Contorted Science: The Flawed Logic of\u00a0Extreme\u00a0Event Attribution<\/a>, Dr. Ralph B. Alexander argues that\u00a0studies\u00a0attempting\u00a0to link specific heatwaves, hurricanes and floods to human-caused climate change<\/strong>\u00a0are fundamentally\u00a0misleading\u00a0<\/strong>and have been\u00a0created for legal and political,<\/strong>\u00a0rather than scientific\u00a0reasons<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper scrutinises recent\u00a0high-profile studies by World Weather Attribution and the Grantham Institute<\/strong>.\u00a0In 2025\u00a0alone, World Weather Attribution\u00a0claimed that 24\u00a0of 29\u00a0extreme events<\/strong>\u00a0examined were\u00a0made more severe or more likely by climate change.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander\u00a0shows how\u00a0such conclusions\u00a0depend heavily on climate models<\/strong>\u00a0that struggle to reproduce historical climate patterns and assume scientists can accurately\u00a0simulate a \u201cnatural\u201d climate without human emissions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some\u00a0key recurring weaknesses<\/strong>\u00a0are\u00a0identified\u00a0within attribution studies:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n