I am commenting on the article that appears on your website at http://dailyorange.com/2015/10/su-professor-joins-national-team-researching-infrastructure-extreme-weather/.

Professor David Chandler is wrong to imply that extreme climate events are caused by climate change.

This is one of the few areas of agreement between the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).

In 2012 the IPCC asserted that a relationship between global warming and wildfires, rainfall, storms, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events has not been demonstrated

In 2013 the NIPCC concluded the same saying, “In no case has a convincing relationship been established between warming over the past 100 years and increases in any of these extreme events.”

Yet, on the false premise that there has been a supposed increase in extreme weather events caused by global warming, President Barack Obama wants to end America’s use of coal, your country’s least expensive and more plentiful power source. It is worrisome for us here in Canada, and indeed across the free world, when our primary defender is bent on crippling itself in this way.

Sincerely,
Tom Harris, B. Eng., M. Eng. (Mech.)
Executive Director
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)