Clear Energy Alliance Lies About Climate Change Consensus

Teacher or professor: Godless Engineer
Subject: Science, Politics
Content of the Lesson: Today we are talking about how Clear Energy Alliance lies about the climate change consensus. Clear Energy Alliance claims that the scientific consensus on climate change says that storms will get stronger and more frequent. This is twisting what actual science says about the effects of Climate Change on weather systems. The actual scientific position is that “Global warming amplifies the risk factors for extreme weather events” [6]. That is all that any scientific paper ever claims. For example, a study on the effects of climate change on UK flooding in October and November 2000 showed that greenhouse gas emissions increased the risk of flooding by 20% and in a few cases by 90% [7]. And there are many more scientific studies that show increased precipitation extremes are caused by climate change [8][11], increased dry areas in North America, West Africa, and East Asia [9], and increased temperature extremes [10][11][12]. So it was always increased chances of extreme weather events including but not limited to Hurricanes. Clear Energy Alliance also claims that major hurricanes are in decline, therefore, climate change isn't affecting them. This assumes that the scientific position says that hurricanes will become more frequent. This is a strawman point against the scientific consensus because all the scientific consensus says is that the factors for extreme weather will increase. Not that it will definitely cause more storms. In fact, historical data actually shows an increase in the wind-damage dealt by these extreme weather events [13]. Climate Scientist Kerry Emanuel pointed out in 1987 that increasing sea surface temperatures would cause Hurricanes to become more destructive [14]. His statements continued to be validated with each passing hurricane season. This is not including the other factors that amplify a Hurricane's total destructive power. When you include that sea levels have risen significantly in the past half-century and the atmosphere’s ability to hold more moisture, the Hurricanes are actually more destructive. Regardless of the frequency of hurricanes that make landfall, the strong storms are getting stronger and will continue on this trend [15]. Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq1p0UUTJ3w Subscribe to this channel: http://SubToGE.com Join the Skeptic Mafia: http://JoinSkepticMafia.com Discord Server: http://bit.ly/JoinGodlessDiscord Intro by "Gonna Go For it": https://goo.gl/1Ay1Q3 References [1] https://www.desmogblog.com/citizens-alliance-responsible-energy [2]https://web.archive.org/web/20151204212325/http://responsiblenergy.org/misconceptions.asp [3] https://clearenergyalliance.com/about/ [4] https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=202421808 [5] https://skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natural-emissions.htm [6] https://skepticalscience.com/link_to_us.php?Argument0=107 [7] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09762 [8] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09763 [9] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wcc.81 [10] https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/2010JCLI3908.1 [11] http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n7/full/nclimate1452.html [12] https://www.pnas.org/content/109/37/E2415 [13] https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/WCAS-D-11-00007.1 [14] https://skepticalscience.com/hurricane-sandy-global-warming.htm [15] https://skepticalscience.com/link_to_us.php?Argument0=51 [16] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/10/24/why-the-major-hurricane-drought-is-the-most-overblown-statistic-in-meteorology/ [17] https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php [18] https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/HURRICANE_RECIPE.html [19] https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-sea-surface-temperature [20] https://nca2009.globalchange.gov/observed-relationship-between-sea-surface-temperatures-and-hurricane-power-north-atlantic-ocean/index.html [21] https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2017/08/24/all-hurricanes-hit-u-s-since-2005/598113001/ [22] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07234 [23] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03906 [24] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/28/climate-change-hurricane-harvey-more-deadly [25] https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/in-short/storm-harvey-impacts-worsened-due-to-global-warming [26] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep45242 [27] https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer [28] https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/10/14/30-peer-reviewed-studies-show-no-connection-between-climate-change-and-hurricanes/ [29] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044022 [30] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/grl.50382


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