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“The bottom line is that the science says that most extreme weather events show no long-term trends that can be attributed to human influences on the climate.”
― Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
― Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
“The implication is that the models generally agree. But that isn’t at all the case. Comparisons among models within any of these ensembles show that, on the scales required to measure the climate’s response to human influences, model results differ dramatically both from each other and from observations. But you wouldn’t know that unless you read deep into the IPCC report. Only then would you discover that the results being presented are “averaging” models that disagree wildly with each other.”
― Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
― Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
“In study after study I conducted, I found that older people with more-positive perceptions of aging performed better physically and cognitively than those with more-negative perceptions; they were more likely to recover from severe disability, they remembered better, they walked faster, and they even lived longer.”
― Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live
― Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live
“It’s clear that media, politicians, and often the assessment reports themselves blatantly misrepresent what the science says about climate and catastrophes. Those failures indict the scientists who write and too-casually review the reports, the reporters who uncritically repeat them, the editors who allow that to happen, the activists and their organizations who fan the fires of alarm, and the experts whose public silence endorses the deception. The constant repetition of these and many other climate fallacies turns them into accepted “truths.”
― Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
― Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
“More bluntly, they’re saying that we’ve no idea what causes this failure of the models. They cannot tell us why the climate changed during those decades. And that’s deeply unsettling, because the observed early twentieth-century warming is comparable to the observed late twentieth-century warming, which the assessment reports attribute with “high confidence” to human influences.”
― Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
― Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
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