Reading the press coverage, it is quite clear that this year’s tornadoes, fires and floods are the new norm due to CO2.
Record snowpack, lack of drought, and lack of hurricanes are a fluke to be ignored.
Next year the signs may switch polarity – and the claims will reverse direction. Whatever happens, it is due to CO2.
Some things truly never change…from Flaubert’s “Dictionary of Received Ideas” (around 1870):