Forbes is Right That Weather Isn’t Getting More Extreme, Wrong About Other Climate Claims

...so-called Exxon Knew scandal, - Linnea Lueken 

A recent article at Forbes, “Four Kinds Of Killer Weather Extremes: An Achilles Heel Problem For Climate Predictors,” is a mixed bag of correct and incorrect claims about climate change and the issue of warming impacts. 

Forbes is right that 

available data doesn’t show extreme weather is getting worse, but 

incorrect on a number of other assertions, like that coral reefs are in danger.

To start, writer Ian Palmer describes the so-called Exxon Knew scandal, citing some of the predictions that models built by ExxonMobil back in the 1980s spat out concerning carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. This narrative about the fuel giant ignores the fact that there were other studies being done internally that showed differently, arguing the opposite...