Environmentalists have constantly been pushing lawmakers to address the issue of climate change, pointing to increased cases of extreme weather as the reason to do so. However their concerns have been exaggerated, according to some researchers.

An environmental studies professor at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Roger Pielke, Jr., says that the United States is in a state of “intense hurricane drought” right now. He said that an intense hurricane drought signifies that the country is right in the middle of the longest stretch between intense hurricanes – Category 3,4, and 5 – of all time.

As he told The Daily Caller News Foundation, “Climate change is real and has a significant human component. But that does not justify exaggerating the science associated with extreme events and disasters. One reason is that such exaggerations are not in line with current science. “

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