US Climate-No Cause for Alarm, says report
Published: Oct 17, 2020
Abstract: A new paper by British climate writer, Paul Homewood says that average temperature rise in the USA is not alarming. Based on the data received from the NOAA, it claims that there has been little or no rise in temperatures since the mid 1990s, summers were hotter in the 1930s than in any recent years, Hurricanes are neither frequent nor so powerful, and wildfires now burn only a fraction of the acreage. However, climatic event examples data collected from different sources, cite a different story.
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