Hurricanes not linked to global warming
Hurricanes like Irma and Harvey are not caused by climate change. As Madhav Khandekar, a Ph.D. in meteorology from Florida State University and a former Environment Canada Research Scientist explains, “the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in 2012 that a relationship between global warming and hurricanes has not been demonstrated.
In their September 2013 assessment report, they had ‘low confidence’ that damaging increases will occur in tropical cyclones and drought due to global warming.”
In 2013 the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change explained, “in no case has a convincing relationship been established between warming over the past 100 years and increases in any of these extreme events.”
Dr. Khandekar concludes, “When the earth was cooling between 1945 and 1977, there were as many extreme weather events as there are now. The link between global warming and extreme weather is more perception than reality.”
Tom Harris, B. Eng., M. Eng. (Mech.)
Executive Director
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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