Liberal journalists and activists are frustrated over the lack of media outlets linking recent natural disasters and extreme weather events around the world to man-made global warming.
From record-breaking heat in Japan and California to wildfires raging in Sweden and Greece, The New Republic’s Emily Atkin fretted “there’s no climate connection to be found in much news coverage of extreme weather events across the globe — even in historically climate-conscious outlets like NPR and The New York Times.”
“I suggested that journalists don’t need to determine whether an event was caused by climate change to make a climate connection — a journalist could merely say climate change makes extreme events such as these more likely,” Atkin wrote on Wednesday.
It’s only the latest incident in a growing trend of liberal journalists demanding extreme weather events be linked to man-made global warming, despite a lack of scientific study into the matter.
Environmental writer Eric Holthaus — a noted climate doomsayer — went on a long Twitter rant pointing out the media’s lack of attention to global warming as a heatwave beat down on Japan.
All over the world, heatwaves are getting longer and more intense because of rising global temperatures.
This is the surest and deadliest impact of our collective failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
As journalists, we *must* do better to connect the dots.
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) July 24, 2018
Cato Institute atmospheric scientist Ryan Maue noted a few of the problems with prematurely trying to link extreme weather to global warming.
In summary, the articles don’t provide any specific data analysis, new research, or information that is specific to Greece — but theories or hypotheses about the impacts of climate change on current / future weather conditions like extreme temperatures and rainfall (drought)
— Ryan Maue | weathermodels.com (@RyanMaue) July 25, 2018
The problem with the real-time attribution during the news cycle is that by time the scientists properly do the data analysis & provide firm fact/figures of the climate impact, it’s not a news story but a literature review. No one is going to read it.
— Ryan Maue | weathermodels.com (@RyanMaue) July 25, 2018
MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes was forced to defend his networks alleged lack of global warming coverage from critics on social media. Hayes argued, “every single time we’ve covered [climate change] it’s been a palpable rating’s killer.”
https://twitter.com/elongreen/status/1021758805368033280
NPR and NYT also felt the pressure. NPR science editor Geoff Brumfiel told TNR’s Atkin his outlet actively working on a story, trying to see what scientists think all of these events,” responsibly adding that “[y]ou don’t just want to be throwing around, ‘this is due to climate change, that is due to climate change.’”
Likewise, NYT deputy climate editor Jonathan Ellis told activists on Twitter an article on wildfires in Greece was updated with “information on the connection to climate change.”
Thanks very much for your feedback, Dr. Guenther. We’ve updated the article with information on the connection to climate change. https://t.co/nFpi93vpNZ pic.twitter.com/kY1bbBKImB
— Jonathan Ellis (@jonathanellis) July 24, 2018
But even then, NYT’s update only noted the “extreme conditions are in line with patterns that scientists attribute to climate change.” That’s because scientists have not formally attributed, through peer-reviewed science, Greek fires to man-made warming.
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Atkin is perturbed but she merely points out the obvious , Journalists are expected to lie with out for the earth has a fever industry . Be good little soldiers and do their part . Journalists apparently don’t have to determine anything just print what ever climate propaganda they are fed by people like Atkin .
You know like “climate – conscious outlets ” do . Yes like the NY Times who have enabled one of the biggest con jobs in history .
Still waiting for that ice free Arctic and other climate porn to materialize but alas it was a hoax .
It is becoming increasingly clear the hang out for population exterminators hang out in the Democrat plantation along with earth has a fever hypocrites .
The New York Pravda(Times)the Nazi Pravda Radio,(NPR)The facts that that liberal rag TIME was droning on about Global Cooling and New Ice Age back in the 1970’s so was Newsweek this whole Climate Change(Manbearpig)Climate Change is the biggist hoax in the history of Mankind and never forget The Trojan Horse ruse this Global Warming/Climate Change is the Globalists Trojan Horse
Did it ever occur to these people that the reason honest journalists aren’t linking their stories to global warming is that there is no rational link of their stories to global warming? Or is it that they can’t admit that more and more rational people aren’t buying their propaganda, and prefer to be given the truth, not lies, about natural events?
Maybe it just SEEMS there’s more catastrophic events.
999 channels of TV and smartphones in everyone’s hand. Weather gone viral.
I can remember when there was only a handful of tornadoes caught by a movie camera, black and white at that.
People must be getting wiser to alarmism and click-bait.