In a stunning implicit admission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a scientific and intergovernmental body under the auspices of the United Nations that revels in trumpeting the dangers of climate change, revealed in a new report that not only is there little evidence that the incidence of extreme events such as drought, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes has increased globally, but the extreme events are little affected by greenhouse gases.
Despite the horrified proclamations from environmentalists that “Unprecedented action is needed,” and the IPCC’s own hysterical warning that government should implement “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” there were some clear-headed people who saw through the puffery, looked at the data, and reached some starkly different conclusions.
One of those realists was Roger Pielke Jr., who was awarded an honorary doctorate from Linköping University in Sweden, the Public Service Award of the Geological Society of America, and the Eduard Brückner Prize in Munich, Germany in 2006 for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research.
Pielke issued a thread on Twitter that documented facts from the IPCC report that were ignored by the mainstream media: