Elwynn Taylor is not a 97%-er.
The Des Moines Register reports,
Iowa suffered its hottest July since the mid-1950s last year and has received below-average moisture since, but agricultural meteorologist Elwynn Taylor of Iowa State University told the Land Investment Expo Friday that climate change accounts for only about 5 percent of whatever weather patterns emerge at a given time.
Taylor told the group that weather patterns tend to run in cycles as long as two decades, and that Iowa has emerged from a period of relatively mild, stable weather to a pattern of colder winters and perhaps hotter, drier summers similar to what happened in the 1950s and again in the 1970s.
“I don’t discount man-made impacts of climate change,’ Taylor said in respones to a question. “But I would put the impact of climate change on our weather right now at no more than 5 percent”…
Many smokers are healthy for the majority of their lives, live to a ripe old age and don’t necessarily die of lung disease. Some non-smokers aren’t necessarily healthy, nor are alway long-lived and die from cancer including that of the lungs. Conclusion: smoking is safe and healthful.