Mann made climate change

Climate scaremongerer, sock puppeteering internet bully and serial litigant Mike Mann is at it again over on Thinkprogress:

There is no doubt, when we look at the increased toll that climate change is taking in form of more devastating superstorms, more prolonged and severe drought, more extreme flooding events, decimated agriculture and livestock, and massive wildfires, that we are already feeling the adverse impacts of climate change.

Meanwhile, in the real world, 2013 was a wash for landfalling hurricanes, which are at a 50 year low, and Typhoon Haiyan turned out not to be ‘unprecedented’ after all, with a much higher death toll occurring in the 1897 storm which hit Tacloban.

Droughts such as those seen in dustbowl America and the Sahel still rank high in the C20th and periodically occur in Australia. There is nothing ‘unprecedented’ about recent droughts or their frequency.

Wildfires occur naturally as well as being the result of arson (sometimes by misguided ‘enviro-mentalists’ trying to ‘save the world’), and their severity is affected by the fuel load of accumulated dead material. ‘Green’ policy to ‘leave nature undisturbed’ has worsened the situation faced by house holders and farmers in Australia and the U.S.

Bumper crops were grown across the world in the last 30 years (largely due to improved co2 levels), with no detectable ill effects from ‘global warming’.

The Mann’s a fool.

Here’s what the current IPCC consensus is on extreme weather attribution.