And extremely bad logic! - Extreme Weather - government officials are incorrectly labelling all extreme weather changes as global warming

UN Chronicle, Dec, 2002 by Patrick J. Michaels

Changes in European rainfall appear to be of the same magnitude. As a result, it is scientifically indefensible to relate the recent flood disaster to global warming. The change in frequency is so small as to be undetectable in any socially significant sense.

In this age of hundreds of channels of television and universal internet access, those who misrepresent climate change by exaggeration to the detriment of the environment and the environmental movement are soon corrected. It is time to stop the exaggeration, and I look for the United Nations to take the lead.

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Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute (Washington, D. C., United States), is Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and is Virginia State climatologist. He has been President of the American Association of State Climatologists and Program Chair of the Applied Climatology Committee of the American Meteorological Society Mr. Michaels, who is a member of IPCC, has published over 200 scientific articles on climate and its impact on society including "The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air About Global Warming", published in 2000 by Cato Books.