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#*The UN's climate panel said recently there is '''a 90% chance''' that most of the last 50 to 100 years of global warming are due to human activity
#*The UN's climate panel said recently there is '''a 90% chance''' that most of the last 50 to 100 years of global warming are due to human activity
#*[[Sallie Baliunas]] points out that the same climate panel also said, "Our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural variability, and because there are uncertainties in key factors" [http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/books/g_warming/solar.html]
#*[[Sallie Baliunas]] points out that the same climate panel also said, "Our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural variability, and because there are uncertainties in key factors" [http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/books/g_warming/solar.html]
==Hypocrisy==
==Hypocrisy==
==Extreme weather events==
==Extreme weather events==
With regard to the catastrophic flooding in [[Pakistan]], Fox News reported that Pakistani senator and “the country’s top climate official" Sherry Rehman, said on Twitter that Pakistan is in 2022 experiencing a "serious climate catastrophe, one of the hardest in the decade." The senator said that “we are at the moment at the ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events”, and described “an unrelenting cascade of heatwaves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, flood events and now the monster monsoon of the decade.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/pakistan-flooding-deaths-pass-one-thousand-in-climate-catastrophe "Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000 in ‘climate catastrophe’ ". Fox News August 28, 2022</ref>
With regard to the catastrophic flooding in [[Pakistan]], Fox News reported that Pakistani senator and “the country’s top climate official" Sherry Rehman, said on Twitter that Pakistan is in 2022 experiencing a "serious climate catastrophe, one of the hardest in the decade." The senator said that “we are at the moment at the ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events”, and described “an unrelenting cascade of heatwaves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, flood events and now the monster monsoon of the decade.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/pakistan-flooding-deaths-pass-one-thousand-in-climate-catastrophe "Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000 in ‘climate catastrophe’ ". Fox News August 28, 2022</ref>
===Winters===
Heavy seasonal snow and extreme snowstorms occur with great frequency, with. the number "of extreme snowstorms in the eastern two-thirds of the contiguous United States" increasing over the last hundred years. There were about double the number of extreme snowstorms in the second half of the 20th century than the first.<ref>[https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/climate-change-and-extreme-snow-us "Climate Change and Extreme Snow in the US", National Centers forEnvironmental Information]</ref>
==Further reading==
==Further reading==