MEDIA RELEASE - "CLIMATE IMPACTS DAY" BASED ON MISUNDERSTANDINGS
Attention: News Editors, Political, Science and Environment Reporters
Adaptation is the sensible response to climate change
Extreme weather not on the rise and not related to hydrocarbon fuel use
Ottawa, Canada, May 5, 2012: “Climate campaigners at 350.org and their partner organizations are completely off base with Climate Impacts Day,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition ...
“Extreme weather events are generally not on the rise either across North America or across the world,” said Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar, Canadian extreme weather expert and former Environment Canada research scientist. “Extreme events in the past few years are occurring with about the same frequency as they did during the 1945-1977 period when the Earth was generally cooling.”
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