Editors comment: This paper’s environment editor, Graham...

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    This paper’s environment editor, Graham Lloyd,... pointed out [this month's Hurricane] Irma had formed in a part of the Atlantic with unusually cool ocean surface temperature averaging 26.5C, about two degrees less than usual for such an intense storm.
    He also skewered the latest bulletin from the Climate Council, led by palaeontologist climate activist Tim Flannery, titled: “Fingerprints of climate change all over Tropical Storm Harvey”. Climate Council chief executive Amanda McKenzie had claimed “climate change is now supercharging extreme weather events”.
    Lloyd cited the latest scientific paper from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that concluded it was premature to suggest human activities had already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity.
    Accept the science is the cry from green extremists, but they don’t really.
 
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