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“I can think of no other area of research where the relaxing of rigour and standards has been encouraged by researchers in order to generate claims more friendly to headlines, political advocacy and even lawsuits”.

Sensational climate claims made without proper scientific basis and spread by government officials threaten the public’s trust in its scientific officials and undermines the government’s mission of stewarding the environment

There is simply no evidence to support claims that tornadoes are getting worse or causing more damage.

The IPCC has not detected or attributed fire occurrence or area burned to human-caused climate change

...climate scepticism was on the rise throughout the world, as populations start to grasp the effects of the looming Net Zero disaster.

Science? Peer review? Journalists? WYD?

This blatant failure by the climate alarmist media to address the reality of declining weather event severity and instead conceal such data is just another example establishing the dishonesty and deception of climate alarmist propaganda...

This is a pervasive, quasi-religious assumption of the Earth science community for as long as I can remember.

The first observation is that the report is more heavily weighted to implausible scenarios than any previous IPCC assessment report

They are automating character assassination & calling it "science"

. It is very appealing, even seductive, for activists and the media to latch on to extreme events (as inaccurately summarized in the SPM), but at some point we have to say that objective science and its communication matters...

A failure of self-correction in science has compromised climate science’s ability to provide plausible views of our collective future.

Pricing carbon makes good sense but should not come at the expense of scientific integrity

2020 Atlantic hurricane season ends today Here are updated CONUS normalized losses through 2020 2020 ranks 15th of 121 years Based on @JessicaWeinkle et al https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0165-2 And CONUS landfalling...

Reposted from the Fabius Maximus website By Larry Kummer, Editor / 8 February 2020 Summary: Progress in the climate policy debate comes too slowly. The use and misuse of RCP8.5 shows why. At this pace, the climate will give...