Roger - I really appreciate your work, I really do, but this post is not working for me. I get your point, but it feels alot like George Bush hanging the banner "Mission Accomplished". What exactly have we accomplished? I sometimes feel like this kind of reporting is like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Things are not getting better and it's hard to see how we will actually escape what we have wrought. I see other folks calling this doom and gloom, but what do we lose if we get this wrong?
This week, in mid-July, in the Chicagoland area, we had some temperatures highs in the 90s. All you heard were warnings of “extreme” heat (the real feel pushed over the 100F mark). This afternoon, we had a robust thunderstorm develop and drop a lot of rain. Also, “extreme”…sheesh.
I’ve lived in the Midwest for nearly 70 years. About the only change I’ve seen are winters (now and then) with wimpy snowfalls. The hyperbole is out of control.
Can you elaborate on your comment on the CRED data and the reporting bias for the pre 2000 data? I have seen here in the Netherlands how past weather data was corrected: the past was made colder with fewer heat waves, so climate change looked worse. Is this something else?
And just today this came across my desk from Inside Climate News..
?The public square has acquiesced to the notion of a “post-fact world” far too easily and thoughtlessly, without a fight. Yet facts govern our lives, and will continue to do so, even if we lose the ability to recognize them.
In the case of climate change, what we refuse to know is already killing us. What’s missing from climate communications? Maybe that’s not the right question. Maybe the right question is how to flood the zone with truth.
For our part at ICN, we have been developing some answers by opening bureaus around the country. We have found that with just two reporters in a state—sometimes with only one, sometimes with a strong cohort of freelancers—we can work with partner newsrooms and dispel silence and counter misinformation. We can revive and elevate the local environmental conversation and have it revolve around the facts people care deeply about: what is happening to the water they drink, to the air they breathe, to the land they inhabit—right where they live—while holding leaders and polluters accountable. "
Here is the list of funders... of course "they do not have access to our editorial process or decision-making" so we must trust that reporters are totally objective and knowledgeable in countering climate "misinformation."
What’s up with a study I recently read that” old carbon” is being detected within the new carbon added to the atmosphere, mainly carried a released by rivers?
I work in financial reporting. Only 17 working days have passed since the end of H1. It takes us (as a financial reporting team) that length of time to report for one company. The nature of these events means that the reporting of these stats might not be immediately possible (or even prioritised). Is it possible that this figure for H1 will be updated over the coming months? Are we premature declaring "victory"?
In your work, how do you access the impact on climate? I have appreciated the analysis of what we get wrong, but what are the markers of increasing carbon emissions. What data should we look at to better understand this?
My favorite-------"Climate change, where the weather is always your fault and the only solution is more communism". Probably too direct and in your face, but that's how these bullies operate.
Harry Enten is not a reporter talking about climate activists, he is a climate activist discussing his cult and it is fake news to suggest he is a journalist or reporter.
CoveringClimateNow.org is a star chamber, it’s how stories appear around the globe at the same time, Trump should focus on that.
And I know you don’t like to discuss such things here but what you are describing here is “exactly” how they tried to subvert and nail Trump.
Apocolypse Never, by Michael Shellenberger, was the first book I read that debunked many of the myths created by the radical environmentalists. It was eye opening Shellenberger of course references and quotes Pielke's work.
From TFP. (The number of deaths in Europe, mentioned in your piece, caught my eye).
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But Billy, as a substandard British patriot I’ll admit that you have a point. When the heat wave struck earlier this month, we suffered. The London Underground became a furnace. Every British newspaper ran an article about “how to keep cool.” Shut the curtains! Put cold towels on your bare legs! I did all this and more, in the apartment where I both sleep and work, which is but 15 years old and has no air con.
Believe it or not, I’m one of the lucky ones. I read last week, with horror, that over 250 people died in London during that heat wave. And I learned today, from Free Press columnist Tyler Cowen’s latest piece, that more Europeans die heat-related deaths than Americans suffer fatal gunshot wounds.
Roger - I really appreciate your work, I really do, but this post is not working for me. I get your point, but it feels alot like George Bush hanging the banner "Mission Accomplished". What exactly have we accomplished? I sometimes feel like this kind of reporting is like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Things are not getting better and it's hard to see how we will actually escape what we have wrought. I see other folks calling this doom and gloom, but what do we lose if we get this wrong?
Great work, Roger.
What exactly qualifies as “extreme weather”?
This week, in mid-July, in the Chicagoland area, we had some temperatures highs in the 90s. All you heard were warnings of “extreme” heat (the real feel pushed over the 100F mark). This afternoon, we had a robust thunderstorm develop and drop a lot of rain. Also, “extreme”…sheesh.
I’ve lived in the Midwest for nearly 70 years. About the only change I’ve seen are winters (now and then) with wimpy snowfalls. The hyperbole is out of control.
What are climate disasters?
Can you elaborate on your comment on the CRED data and the reporting bias for the pre 2000 data? I have seen here in the Netherlands how past weather data was corrected: the past was made colder with fewer heat waves, so climate change looked worse. Is this something else?
And just today this came across my desk from Inside Climate News..
?The public square has acquiesced to the notion of a “post-fact world” far too easily and thoughtlessly, without a fight. Yet facts govern our lives, and will continue to do so, even if we lose the ability to recognize them.
In the case of climate change, what we refuse to know is already killing us. What’s missing from climate communications? Maybe that’s not the right question. Maybe the right question is how to flood the zone with truth.
For our part at ICN, we have been developing some answers by opening bureaus around the country. We have found that with just two reporters in a state—sometimes with only one, sometimes with a strong cohort of freelancers—we can work with partner newsrooms and dispel silence and counter misinformation. We can revive and elevate the local environmental conversation and have it revolve around the facts people care deeply about: what is happening to the water they drink, to the air they breathe, to the land they inhabit—right where they live—while holding leaders and polluters accountable. "
Here is the list of funders... of course "they do not have access to our editorial process or decision-making" so we must trust that reporters are totally objective and knowledgeable in countering climate "misinformation."
What’s up with a study I recently read that” old carbon” is being detected within the new carbon added to the atmosphere, mainly carried a released by rivers?
Excellent information to spread among the internet doom and gloom crowd. Thank you.
I work in financial reporting. Only 17 working days have passed since the end of H1. It takes us (as a financial reporting team) that length of time to report for one company. The nature of these events means that the reporting of these stats might not be immediately possible (or even prioritised). Is it possible that this figure for H1 will be updated over the coming months? Are we premature declaring "victory"?
In your work, how do you access the impact on climate? I have appreciated the analysis of what we get wrong, but what are the markers of increasing carbon emissions. What data should we look at to better understand this?
Science used to be based on consensus, before Galileo. At least in this field, it appears we’ve returned to that.
My favorite-------"Climate change, where the weather is always your fault and the only solution is more communism". Probably too direct and in your face, but that's how these bullies operate.
Thank you for shining lights where others either cannnot or will not. We all appreciate it!
Harry Enten is not a reporter talking about climate activists, he is a climate activist discussing his cult and it is fake news to suggest he is a journalist or reporter.
CoveringClimateNow.org is a star chamber, it’s how stories appear around the globe at the same time, Trump should focus on that.
And I know you don’t like to discuss such things here but what you are describing here is “exactly” how they tried to subvert and nail Trump.
Endless lies from all the same sorts.
All for the “greater good”.
They really all should be locked up
Did you mean to say that the global death rate related to extreme weather in 2025
was approximately 60% of the rate in 2020? There was not a 60% reduction in the rate based on the figures you provide: 1.4 to .9 .
Reduced to 60% more accurate
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Apocolypse Never, by Michael Shellenberger, was the first book I read that debunked many of the myths created by the radical environmentalists. It was eye opening Shellenberger of course references and quotes Pielke's work.
From TFP. (The number of deaths in Europe, mentioned in your piece, caught my eye).
*******
But Billy, as a substandard British patriot I’ll admit that you have a point. When the heat wave struck earlier this month, we suffered. The London Underground became a furnace. Every British newspaper ran an article about “how to keep cool.” Shut the curtains! Put cold towels on your bare legs! I did all this and more, in the apartment where I both sleep and work, which is but 15 years old and has no air con.
Believe it or not, I’m one of the lucky ones. I read last week, with horror, that over 250 people died in London during that heat wave. And I learned today, from Free Press columnist Tyler Cowen’s latest piece, that more Europeans die heat-related deaths than Americans suffer fatal gunshot wounds.