"cautioning against linking climate change to any one event," is the new denier talking point. @NHC_Atlantic Director Jamie Rhome should know better. The effect of climate change on the impacts of hurricanes is well established. @KHayhoe @MichaelEMann foxnews.com/media/national… @NHC_Atlantic @KHayhoe @MichaelEMann The impact of global warming and sea level rise on storm surge is VERY well established. Regarding rainfall, numerous attribution studies have established increased rainfall in individual events. There are other impacts as well, such as rapid intensification and stalling. 2/

The new and mindboggling numbers on the methane emissions from the Permian Basin makes me wonder: has most of the progress to date in reducing U.S. GHG emissions been illusory, given much of it has been secured by coal-to-gas switching? #energytwitter #climatetwitter 1/n Alvarez et al established an overall methane leakage rate for the natural gas sector at 2.3%, much higher than EPA estimates, and disturbing given that at 2.7% there is no net gain from coal-to-gas switching. 2/n

@MichaelEMann @skepticscience Normalizing for GDP growth is a classic cherry-picking technique as it ignores the vast increase in resilience delivered by all that wealth. It only factors in the increase of wealth exposed to extreme weather, not the increased resilience. @MichaelEMann @skepticscience medium.com/@huntercutting…

THREAD: The most important and most under-reported #climatechange story of the year: global methane levels are unexpectedly surging and scientists are ringing the alarm bells, calling on countries to stop methane emissions from fossil-fuel operations. ft.com/content/9a3c05… NOAA just released data showing that global atmospheric methane leapt up last year, marking the 2nd highest jump in the last 20 years and extending a 12 year surge, a surge that has accelerated by 50% over the past 5 years. 2/n