And yet, for all of these incidents, climate activists and their champions in the media repeat their false mantra over and over: Whether it's the wildfires in Maui, the temperatures this summer, or drought, you can count on them to blame climate change.
Regarding hurricanes and other extreme weather events, it is easy to fall for media-identified experts providing scientific-sounding theories about how climate change is making extreme weather events worse. Fortunately, we can fact-check such claims against objective scientific data. Regarding hurricanes and virtually all other extreme weather events, the objective data show climate change is, at worst, having no impact on these events.
But it's even more likely that climate change is making hurricanes and other extreme weather events less frequent and less severe—at least, for those who care to consult the facts.The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.