By Paul Homewood
h/t Quaesoveritas (and apologies for sending him to the spam box!!)
The BBC are now trying to backtrack from their report last week of how extreme weather events had rocketed since 2005.
This item was on Radio 4 last night, for the first 5 mins. Click on link below to play.
On Tuesday, Today programme listeners woke up to the news that the think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, had new statistics that showed the scale of the damage we humans are doing to the planet. It said that since 2005, the number of floods across the world has increased by 15 times, extreme temperature events by 20 times, and wildfires seven-fold. However, the IPPR soon corrected that date to 1950, blaming a 'typo', but climate change researcher and author of Six Degrees Mark Lynas tells Tim Harford why he thinks the IPPR's numbers are still wrong.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002hyq
Even now, Lynas does not give the whole story, that thousands of weather disasters happened in the early decades, but were never properly recorded or registered by EM-DAT.
But it does show just how incompetent Harrabin was in not challenging such an absurd claim in the first place.
from Climate Change Skeptic Blogs via hj on Inoreader http://bit.ly/2BFxZHD
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