Incorrect, Associated Press, climate change is not triggering a more extreme climate, will it do that?

He Associated press (AP) recently published an article, entitled “From floods to droughts, climate change accelerates the water cycle, triggers a more extreme climate. “The article is false.

“Scientists have warned for decades that the increase in global temperatures would judge the water cycle, which leads to more intense storms, worse droughts and more chaotic changes between the two,” says the article of the AP. This tired trope assumes Climate realism.

The real data examination explodes by the “juice” fantasy of extreme climate of the AP faster than a card house in a wind storm.

Let’s start with floods. For example, the Climate realism piece “No, Reuters, climate change is not increasing the impact of floods”Quote the historical flood records of NOAA to demonstrate that these events have reduced and fluid naturally for centuries, long before the SUVs wandered through the earth.

Then there is drought: Climate of a look: drought It presents the severity index of the US palmer drought. Uu., Does not show a long -term trend towards worsening conditions in the last 120 years, despite the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). He Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeOften the option for climatic alarmists, even admits low confidence in linking extreme climatic changes with human CO2 emissions, a nuance of the Seattle Timesthat carried the history of the AP, it jumps conveniently.

But he doesn’t stop there. The obsession of the AP with a “played” water cycle overlooks natural climatic conductors such as the boy and girl, who have issued climatic swings for millennia.

Strong evidence of this comes from the study “Variability of El Niño/Sur’s oscillation activity at the Millennium Time Scales during the Holocene era”Posted in Nature. This investigation analyzed a 10,000 -year sediment record to rebuild the variability on the Holocene (the last ~ 11,700 years). The study found that El Niño and La Niña events (Enso)—Calad by the changes in the precipitation and the deposition of sediments – it has occurred for at least 10,000 years, with its frequency and intensity fluctuating naturally for decades, centuries and millennia.

“Enso variability has been a persistent characteristic of the Tropical Pacific Climate System throughout Holocene,” says the authors of the study. They link these cycles with significant climatic changes, such as the volteities of the wettest to drier conditions.

He Seattle Times Republicado without criticism of article Ap. What about the humid cycles of the northwest of the Pacific that affect Seattle? Historical records: detailed in the minutes of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011, entitled “Drought variability in the northwestern Pacific from a 6,000 -year -old lake sediment record.” He analyzed a sediment core from Castor Lake in Washington to rebuild 6,000 years of the history of flock/drought in the northwest of the Pacific. He found that humid and dry cycles have naturally fluctuated for millennia, with some dry periods that last decades, largely driven by natural climatic patterns such as the boy/the girl.

Returning to the AP article, he also states:

The oceans absorb most of the extra heat of the planet. That makes the water expand and the ice melt in the posts, raising sea level. The warmer water also provides fuel for hurricanes and larger cyclones that can throw large amounts of water in a short time.

Those statements are easily refuted. Data presented in Climate of a look: hurricanes It definitely demonstrates that the global cyclones activity has remained stable, without digital traces of climate change. Also, Sea levels have been increasing naturally and gradually Long before the “climate change” was a brightness in the eye of the media.

Other data reveal that Wilder’s balances in the extreme weather occurred at the beginning of the 20th century, and before, as during the Dust bowlWhen CO2 levels much lower than today. Floods in the past, like the devastating Flood of 1911 Green River Valleyor the Mississippi’s great flood of 1927Dwarf many modern events, but are we supposed to believe that all this is new? The AP also ignores the inconvenient truths, such as the best infrastructure, best prognosis and improved warning systems Reduced deaths related to climate by more than 90 percent during the last century. TO 2021 World Health Organization The report confirms that extreme weather deaths have decreased dramatically.

“Thanks to the improvement of early warnings and disaster management, the number of deaths decreased almost three times,” the WMO said.

Above the AP articleNext to a donation button is the statement: “AP establishes the standard for political reports. Support independent journalism based on facts. “

However, the evidence is clear that, although the AP is promoting a “judged” water cycle based on claims of vague and non -fundamental experts, the agency ignored government studies and colleagues reviewed reports that undermine this conclusion. For example. Global Precipitation Climatology Project, He examined global precipitation trends and determined that the current variability is within the historical norm; There is no water cycle juice in evidence. Also, Climate realism He has published dozens of articles that cite real world data that demonstrate that neither the forest fire nor the trends of hurricane nor tornadoes are worsening at all, much less worsening in response to the supposed climate change, here, hereand hereFor example.

“Based on facts?” Just, since the agency routinely, as their “reporters” did in this story, ignore the easy to find mountains that undermine the statements of the world faces a climatic crisis. Shame in him Associated press For this journalistic negligence.

The fourth state informs, does not indoctrine. In this story, the AP obtains an “F” for false reports.

Anthony Watts

Anthony Watts is the main member of the environment and climate at the Heartland Institute. Watts has been in the weather business both in front and behind the camera and television meteorologist in the air since 1978, and currently perform daily radio forecasts. It has created presentation systems of weather graphics for television, specialized weather instrument, as well as documents reviewed by pairs on climatic issues. Opera the most watched website on the climate, the award -winning wattsupwithth.com website.