The Climate Change that Ate Afghanistan

Episode 37 of the The Climate Discussion Nexus podcast, hosted by John Robson, titled "The Climate Change that Ate Afghanistan" was published on September 8, 2021 and runs 11 minutes.

September 8, 2021 ·11m · The Climate Discussion Nexus

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne...), starting with the effrontery of blaming climate change for the Taliban victory in Afghanistan and moving on to the real meaning of "trend", the absurdity of blaming marijuana for climate change, more of McKitrick on Koonin plus McKitrick's own critique of IPCC statistical methods of attributing climate change to GHGs, and also what the new UN IPCC report really said, this week on flooding.

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