To be precise they say "Yet when it comes to extreme weather, Mr. Trump is complicit. ".
The dictionary defines complicit to mean:
helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way
Given that even the warmists who blame everything on global warming...err climate change acknowledge that nothing done since Trump took office could have changed CO2 levels in any significant way the WaPo claim is proof of either their dishonesty or their scientific ignorance.
What makes it even worse is that Trump's unleashing of the US energy sector--which Obama unsuccessfully tried to crush-- has resulted in US CO2 emissions going down.
In fact the graph you can find here shows that in 2017 the US lead the world in reducing CO2 emissions.
Hence if CO2 actually caused more extreme weather, which it doesn't to the degree that the warmists claim, Trump should be the poster boy for reducing hurricanes.
But if increasing CO2 is driving hurricanes then they must be stealth hurricanes that the National Hurricane Center hasn't heard about.
This plot shows the total number of hurricanes making landfall on the US. Note that current levels, when the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is much higher than in the past, are lower than when CO2 levels were lower.
This plot shows major hurricane landfalls. Once again the low CO2 past was much worse.
In both cases the 2011-2020 data were generated by taking the 2011-2017 data and multiplying by 10/7.
See http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E23.html and https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml for the data.
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How does that saying go? "... , no explanation is needed; ... no explanation will suffice." Seems to (almost) apply here. All that science isn't necessary, although - interesting!
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