Virginia and Climate Change – Separating Fact from Fiction
A team of experts assembled by the CO2 Coalition has completed a detailed examination of effects (or non-effects) of climate change in the Commonwealth of Virginia. View the entire document here (pdf) Virginia and Climate Change.
Conclusion
This detailed analysis of climate change and its alleged impact on Virginia finds the following to be true and supported by voluminous governmental and peer-reviewed studies concerning the Commonwealth:
- There is no unusual or unprecedented warming
- Heat waves have been declining
- Severe weather is not increasing
- Crop and forest growth are increasing
- Droughts are in decline
- There is no increase in hurricanes
- Complete elimination of carbon dioxide emissions within Virginia will have an impact that is so close to zero that it is meaningless
In short, there is no climate crisis and any attempts to eliminate CO2 via regulation or taxation are simply “solutions in search of a problem.”
Key images from the report:
Virginia raw unaltered USHCN temperature data
Virginia – Very cold nighttime temperatures are declining (USHCN)
Virginia corn-yield trends are similar to those in the nation as a whole, with the increase beginning in the late 1930s with the widespread adoption of hybrid varieties. Source: USDA
Very hot days in Virginia are declining (USHCN)