JunkScience.com Founder Steve Milloy ripped an absurd Washington Post argument that Hurricane Ida — which caused power outages to more than a million homes — is a spawn of climate change.
The leftist Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper capitalized on the catastrophic hurricane to push insane eco-extremist talking points: “How climate change helped make Hurricane Ida one of Louisiana’s worst.”
The story’s first paragraph peddled straight-up fear porn: “From its birth, the storm was destined to become a monster.” It continued, calling the storm “the poster child for a climate change-driven disaster.”
Milloy lambasted the propaganda in comments to MRC Business: “A non-record hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast in hurricane season is hardly a reason to claim that Ida is the ‘poster child’ of climate change.”
Leave it to The Post to take a story of a natural disaster affecting millions and juice it with its leftist political spin.
In its latest eco-extremism, the newspaper bleated how “[c]limate change not only sets the stage for bigger, fiercer, faster storms, it also makes the deadliest aspect of hurricanes — a deluge of water — even more intense.”
The Post fearmongered that “[i]n an era when climate change has raised the bar for how bad hurricanes can become, [MIT Professor of Atmospheric Science Kerry Emanuel said, Hurricane Ida is a hint of what can happen when a storm reaches its ‘full potential.’”
But Milloy explained to MRC Business why this wild connection of the hurricane to climate change is ridiculous:
During the 2010s, there was a 10-year long drought in land-falling [major] hurricanes. Was that also ‘climate change’? No word from [T]he Washington Post on that one. It’s also useful to remember that [T]he Washington Post has reported that the most active hurricane period of the past 500 years occurred during the years 1772-1781. That is way before coal plants, SUVs, and cheeseburgers.
Milloy wasn’t finished taking down The Post‘s argument. The Post chimed how “[r]ising sea levels linked to global warming will also exacerbate the storm’s effect.”
It continued: “Few places in the United States have suffered more from rising waters as Louisiana, where seas in some areas are 24 inches above their 1950 levels.”
Milloy said what was happening to Louisiana had nothing to do with rising sea levels:
These storms, whatever their cause, will continue [to] cause more damage to New Orleans as the city and environs continue to sink. Since the 1950s, sections of the area have sunk by 24 inches. This is not sea level rise, this is just natural and man-made land subsidence.
Former President Barack Obama’s Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy Steven Koonin mocked the “rising sea level” scare narrative in March:
“[The] sea level is rising at the spectacular rate of one foot per century and was doing it at about the same rate 80 years ago.”
Contact The Washington Post at 202-334-6000 and demand it stops shoving eco-extremism on the American people and report the truth about the climate.
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The Washington Compost printing front page Lies in its daily rag they the M.S. Media have been blaming Global Warming/Climate Change for Hurricanes since even before Katrina back in 2005 and they just continue to lie to their readers or their daily liberal rag and then wonder why their losing their Subcribers
When one realises who owns the Washington Post, it is therefore easy to understand why this kind misleading nonsense is printed.
Another story made it to the papers recently about the Madives, in that sea levels are rising and the islands are disappearing, so send money to save us…… That’s what stories like this ultimately lead to. The “truth” about the Muldives is the main island has grown in size, but they don’t was ignorant climate change believers to know that.