How to lie with facts

 

The Yale Climate Connection has a very instructive article from Jeff Masters.  And it shows who's correct about climate change, and who isn't -- and who tries to lie with the actual reality.

How to deny climate change using the IPCC report
The new Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, claims that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there has been no increase in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or droughts – but Wright is wrong.

Let's go to the facts. This is one that numerous climate change deniers with no apparent moral standards frequently try to insist isn't true. As I've argued, it is true, and has been for years.

“We have high confidence that extreme precipitation events are increasing in intensity and frequency and that human actions are playing a substantial role,” [James] Kossin says in the video. Even for drought, where the science is somewhat less certain, “We still have good confidence that drought extremes are increasing and that human actions are playing a role,” Kossin adds."

As the article notes, Kossin is a lead author on the IPCC report.

The article describes the strategies used to mislead and misrepresent using what the IPCC says and what it doesn't say. Wouldn't just being honest be better?

Not for a member of the Trump Disintegration, of course.

So, to summarize:

Believe the experts; they know what they're talking about