Extreme Flood Events Decreasing In Europe
Since the 1950s the number of lives and the amount of money lost to floods have declined, despite little change to the frequency of catastrophic floods, according to the first comprehensive study of European historical records. If anything, the frequency of “extreme hydrological events” went down during the 20th century, despite global warming. –Oliver Moody, The Times, 30 May 2018
Marine science whistleblower Peter Ridd has stepped up his campaign for a new body to check the quality of Great Barrier Reef science to ensure that billions of dollars of public funding are well spent.
Professor Ridd said a quality assurance panel to audit research findings would cost a small fraction of the money already earmarked and would quickly achieve results. Professor Ridd said his motivation for better quality assurance was the so-called “replication crisis”, which was an open secret in the science community internationally.
A series of major campaigns to replicate and check recent scientific results had shown consistently that about half were wrong. –Graham Lloyd, The Australian, 26 May 2018 (Paywall)
China’s carbon emissions are on track to rise at their fastest pace in more than seven years during 2018, casting further doubt on the ability of the Paris climate change agreement to curb dangerous greenhouse gas increases, according to a Greenpeace analysis based on Beijing’s own data. Although China has invested heavily in renewable energy such as wind and solar, a key reason for its emissions growth is rising demand for oil and gas due to increased car ownership and electricity demand. —Financial Times, 29 May 2018
The International Energy Agency has said there will be a net increase in carbon emissions due to electric vehicles when considering life-cycle emissions in countries, like India and China, which have a carbon-intensive power generation mix. —Business Standard, 30 May 2018
China is considering a plan to buy more American coal as part of an effort to narrow its trade deficit with the U.S., according to people with knowledge of the matter. More imports by the Asian nation would be a boon for American coal-producing states — including West Virginia — that supported Donald Trump’s presidency on the back of his pledge to revive the ailing industry. —Bloomberg, 29 May 2018
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Droughts and floods are entirely natural events. Whether they increase or decrease is dependent on natural forces, and nature does not sit still.
If humans are dumb enough to ignore nature then they will experience what to them over their short lives, appears to be a unusual events, then that is a human perception problem, not a weather/climate one.
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