EXTREME weather blown away from unexpected direction

[FarCenter]

Allegations of a "surge" in "extreme" weather events has been quashed by a surprising source - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

"There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change," writes the IPCC in its new Special Report on Extremes (SREX) published today.

"The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados," the authors conclude, adding for good measure that "absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses".

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/29/ipcc_srex_thermageddon/

[RobertEarl]

1. Headline is false

The story is about how there is no certainty about what causes extreme weather except for what is commonly understood.

You are not a denialist, are you, FC?

[denverbill]

2. What if human caused global warming isn't really a problem and we made all these changes?

All we'd be left with would be cleaner air, cleaner water, more fuel efficient cars, less dependency on unstable, hostile oil producing nations, and more green jobs.

That would suck.

[randome]

6. Yeah, how could we live with ourselves, then?

[n2doc]

7. illustrated:

[denverbill]

8. Yes, I stole that from that cartoon, unashamedly.

I'm not sure if you were the one who posted it originally, but I thought it was the best response I had ever seen to people who say we shouldn't do anything about global warming.

So on the one hand, if it's a hoax and we act anyway, we get the above. And if it's not a hoax and we don't act, what's the downside? Crop failures, droughts, blackouts, starvation, obliteration of coastal cities, etc.

[n2doc]

9. The downside is some wealthy people make less money

Can't have that.

[fascisthunter]

3. LOL... good lawd

"...Orlowski's energy-related articles on The Register are in general highly pro-nuclear, pro-oil and anti-renewable." - Wkipedia

Oh, he hates Wikipedia too!

Lol

[truebrit71]

4. So if I'm reading that right they are not only saying that the recent freak weather isn't due...

..to Global Climate Change, but that humans haven't impacted GCC at all...???

:confused:

[FarCenter]

5. Here are links to the summary report.

http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/images/uploads/SREX-SPMbrocure_FINAL.pdf 11.8 Mbyte file

http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/

Some things, like record cold days are decreasing, and record warm days are increasing.

There is only low confidence that hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, etc. are either increasing in frequency or intensity.