It was Richard Nixon who said that if you have got them by their sensitive parts their hearts and minds will follow. Now, after all these years and all those IPCC’s assessment reports, climate change scientists find themselves in this position. How will they react?
Our planet has just experienced global climatic extremes from bitter cold conditions in parts of the northern hemisphere immediately followed by extreme floods stretching from Australia in the east through to Brazil in the west. The last time that floods of this magnitude occurred was in 1974 when they were even more severe.
How is it possible that these extreme, global climatic conditions were not predicted by all those well-funded international institutions with their complex global climate computer models, not even days before they occurred?
They will respond by saying that this was extreme weather not climate. But if this extreme weather was exceeded by similar conditions in 1974 how can it be claimed that global temperatures have increased dramatically and that the world's climate has reacted accordingly? Then they claim that climate is average weather. If this is so then how do they explain that the weather extremes have not increased during the past 40 years but global climate has worsened?
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