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Climate crusaders turn to flimsy 'extreme event attribution' – HotAir

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Public Discourse · Bluesky · this story as of 35m ago
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1h ago "With clear, scientific proof that climate change was to blame for severity of the June heatwave, these losses are just a portent of the future impacts we will see if we don’t reduce greenhouse gas… -6.0
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1h ago Europe braces for another heatwave following record-breaking temperatures across the continent, Al Jazeera reports. #Climate #ExtremeWeather -4.0
1h ago Besides climate change causing more bad storms in general, I know my town has a veryyyy conservative warning system. If the tornado triangle projection box overlaps with the county in any small bit… +1.5
2h ago Misperception of Extreme Weather Event Mortality Risk in the United States https://chenlab-yale.github.io/Misperception_mortality_risk/ #Climate, #ClimateChange +1.5
2h ago [Climate] Drought forces water restrictions across nearly 70% of France https://globalperspective.net/ #France #climate #GlobalPerspectives #WorldNews -6.0
2h ago Farming and climate legacies shape the seed microbiota and offspring drought responses in wheat https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.08.743720v1 ×2 +2.5
2h ago Just a small, local reminder friends, that capitalism is far too nearsighted to address the horror of climate change it is unleashing upon us. Tune in next week for another flooding episode. www.… -8.0
2h ago 🌧️ Floods and heavy rain are fueling infectious disease risks across Europe - from contaminated water to new breeding grounds for pathogens. Is Europe prepared for these climate-driven health threa… -3.0
3h ago Starting a series about climate change because I'm an environmental activist and we're having a heat wave here. Over the next few posts, I'll share ideas about what we can do to address climate cha… +2.0
4h ago Can emergency rescues help wildlife recover from climate-driven drought? A new study revealed that rescued platypuses successfully returned home, re-establishing natural movement patterns within da… +5.0
4h ago The Southeast is no stranger to drought, but this summer it's impacting communities and rivers across the country. Droughts are becoming more severe and, in some places, more frequent in a changing… -5.0
4h ago Carney has 1.3 billion tonnes per year, and climbing, of CO2 from Canadian Oil and Gas wreaking havoc on the global climate, fires across Europe and the Canadian north, drought, famine, rising sea … -8.0
4h ago The new weather alerting system should come online tomorrow in Canada 🇨🇦 Alerts should get distributed to a more restricted area on mobile and online. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/08/10/weath… +5.0
4h ago Nobody in the world likes extreme heat or wildfire smoke. The climate crisis affects everyone, whether you vote Liberal, Conservative; left wing or right wing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... -3.0
4h ago Historically, the hottest two weeks is usually the last two weeks of July/ This year thecombination of background climate change and the acceleratin El Nino cycle has stretched the extreme heat wi… -2.5
4h ago And it's threatened by extreme heat caused by climate change? -4.0
4h ago Wildfire, drought and heat have made climate change impossible to avoid this northern summer. But will authorities tackle the cause – or the symptoms? -5.0
4h ago The world agreed to stop climate change in 1992. It failed to do so for one reason - climate denial. Now people are dying from extreme weather events. We know who is responsible! #ClimateBrawl -8.0
4h ago Ooooft. A tornado just 20 odd miles from here. All this not-climate change weather that we’re not getting because climate change isn’t a thing. Cunts are still running the world. -6.0
4h ago Bc wildfires are worse because of drought and climate change. They are making the air unhealthy -6.0
4h ago 🌐 WorldSignal Europe Experiences Heatwaves and Droughts Scientists attribute the severe weather conditions to human-generated climate change. Europe has been affected by a series of heatwaves and… -5.0
5h ago Scientists from the World Weather Attribution group found that higher temperatures caused by human-driven climate change are increasing evaporation, making drought conditions more likely. Renewed h… -5.0
5h ago "We need to hold polluters to account for environmental damage they have inflicted ... This includes the escalating damages from extreme weather events due to climate destabilization." -2.5
5h ago The climate denial is one of the most dangerous movements of the 21st century ... contributing to DEATH and DESTRUCTION ... at least being accesories after the fact. They deny science ... and extr… -8.0
5h ago Extreme weather is a direct result of climate change which is a direct result of burning fossil fuels. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... -4.0
6h ago UK drought map: all areas declared for August 2026 - The Times of London The uk is poorly positioned to handle climate change. There is nowhere to escape drought, unlike in the us. An island, be… -4.0
6h ago Klaus Mack, the Deputy Parliamentary Group Chairman for the CDU, recently highlighted the critical importance of both climate protection and adaptation, noting... https://news.osna.fm/?p=58938 | #… +4.0
6h ago What’s the TLDR? If I had to guess I’d expect flooding no? The nino has walloped the northern hemisphere already so far this year, record heat / fires. It’s a flashing red light from the climate. -5.0
6h ago This is why, say last year there was a drought, but this year, we're having record rainfall. This is climate changed. -1.5

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T3 Climate crusaders turn to flimsy 'extreme event attribution' – HotAir weather_forecast hotair.com dismissive, skeptical, derisive
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