Rainfall Extremes at Uccle, Belgium: 1898-2004

"This temporal clustering," in the words of Ntegeka and Willems, "highlights the difficulty of attributing 'change' in climate series to anthropogenically induced global warming," and they say that "no strong conclusions can be drawn on the evidence of the climate change effect in the historical rainfall series."

We find this negative or null result to be extremely interesting, especially in light of the fact that climate alarmists -- who argue that global warming should produce both more floods and more droughts -- typically contend that the warming of the earth over the past century or more has been unprecedented over the past one to two millennia. Perhaps their worries are not all that well founded.

Climate change ‘low on list of SA concerns’

“When we asked people what the most important challenges facing SA were, the list started with unemployment, HIV/AIDS, economic issues and poverty. The environment was number 10. If you’re not sure where your next meal is coming from, it’s more pressing than something that will affect future generations,” he said.

While half the participants believed the government should take steps to curb greenhouse emissions, they did not want the state to increase the price of petrol, electricity or gas to reduce consumption. They were also not in favour of increased taxes to improve public transport.

Joseph Romm appears not to realize the extreme flimsiness of his alarmist case

It is not remarkable, then, that the American public is so uninformed about global warming, so vulnerable to what might be called the conservative crusade against climate, as discussed repeatedly on this blog and in Naomi Oreskes' excellent lecture titled, "The American Denial of Global Warming."