As the Bahamas reels from the death and destruction that Hurricane Dorian caused, the news media continue to exaggerate a connection between hurricanes to climate change.
Claims ranged from global warming making it “bigger, wetter — and more deadly,” to calling Dorian’s stall a “signal of climate change,” to insisting climate change is “worsening” hurricanes (without proof).
CNN, CNBC, The New York Times and other outlets, including agenda-driven publications like InsideClimate News and the left-wing Democracy Now!, all linked the latest hurricane to climate change.
Democratic socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also joined the fray calling Dorian “what climate change looks like.”
CNN’s Sept. 4, climate forum with Democratic presidential candidates was chock full of blaming climate change for the hurricane too.
The Guardian, which recently co-led an effort for more climate alarmism in the news with Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation, published an op-ed from climate scientists Michael Mann and Andrew Dessler.
Mann is famous (or perhaps infamous) for his “hockey stick” graph of global warming.
“Global heating made Hurricane Dorian bigger, wetter — and more deadly,” the alarmist headline proclaimed. Mann and Dessler also warned climate change would turn more places into “nightmarish hellscapes,” before admitting “the science has yet to come in” on how much it worsened Dorian or if it did.
In a fevered pitch, Mann and Dessler warned that “the worst part is this is only the beginning. Because unless we confront the climate crisis, warming will turn more and more of our fantastic landscapes, cities we call paradise and other dream destinations into nightmarish hellscapes.”
On Sept. 3, CNBC.com turned to Mann who claimed, “Human-caused climate change is visibly intensifying hurricanes and increasing the damage they are doing.” CNBC’s headline claimed Dorian was “a signal of climate change.”
Meanwhile, Dessler showed up in a Sept. 3 New York Times story that sought to answer the question: “How has climate change affected Hurricane Dorian?”
Dessler claimed there was a “very strong consensus” about increased rainfall of these storms. The Times also included other alarmist scientists arguing there is a “trend” in hurricanes stalling and that Dorian was what “we expect to see more often as a response to climate change.”
Professor Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado called Dessler’s claim out in a Forbes column as “simply wrong.”
“Instead of referencing the assessments of the WMO, NOAA or USNCA the Times instead relied on a climate scientist who does not research hurricanes and who apparently invented a fictional consensus on rainfall and hurricanes,” Pielke wrote.
This was a serious charge, especially given that Pielke actually agrees that human-caused climate change is “real and poses significant risks.” He’s also argued for decarbonization.
However, he challenged the media to stop intentionally mixing up climate and weather for political reasons and criticized the selective inclusion scientists on the “bullish fringe” of consensus forecasts from government agencies.
The Spectator UK noted that NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory reviewed the research on global warming and hurricanes in August and said, “it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human activity – and particularly greenhouse warming – has already caused a detectable change in Atlantic hurricane activity.”
While those outlets were talking to plenty of alarmist climate scientists, they were ignoring voices like Dr. Roy Spencer, a meteorologist and principal research scientists at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.
Spencer told Fox News on Sept. 2,
“There [are] all kinds of statistics you can look at, Martha and the ones I look at are the long-term. Because that’s climate. Climate is long-term. And since 1900 out of all of the major hurricanes that have hit Florida there has been no long-term trend in either the intensity or in the number of major hurricanes.”
“Even if Dorian were to hit Florida as a Category 4, which it looks like now is not going to happen. There would still be no long-term trend,” Spencer continued.
When anchor Martha McCallum asked about the claim that sea surface temperatures Dorian moved through were warmer than normal, Spencer agreed the water has been warming. But still, he challenged the assertions being made about it.
Spencer concluded that: “If you look at the data going back over a hundred years you really can’t support increasing hurricane activity with the increasing sea surface temperatures we are seeing.”
He also told her that “The seven hurricanes since 1871, the seven hurricanes that went over the most unusually warm water for that time of year and then hit Florida — all of them occurred before 1950.”
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The Fake News Service CNN,CNBC,The NYT’s their LIARS LIARS LIARS RRAAWWKK SQUAWK SQUAWK KRRAAAWWW,SKREEE SKREET
There was a time when you could place the latest newspaper beside anything and take a picture. It was proof of date. Today, you couldn’t trust that. Anything can be digitally altered, erased or created out of nothing.
Weather records? In the wrong hands, they’ve been turned into lies.
What the CNN Democrat info commercial showed was that “Climate Change ”
has now morphed into a catch all for everything .
Plastic (straws )
Abortions (population control )
Religion ..gala …none believers are sinners
Womens rights
Nationalized energy companies
Essentially anything the hard left wants it to be . A convenient basket
of shinny virtue signaling objects .
If plastic straws are banned then using the same logic how can
continued production of newspapers be allowed ? They result in the killing of millions of tree’s , they are disposable within 24 hours , they use poisonous chemicals that end up in land fills , and there is a viable non polluting alternative . Al Gores internet . God that man was a head of himself .
Maybe that’s why the MSM print business claim to be eco warriors .
They are distracting from their own criminal eco destruction . In fact they are worse than plastic straws they lie . Straws don’t .
Wouldn’t it be very easy for President Trump to go after some of the real
environment issues like lets say use the USA NAVY to chip away at that apparent big plastic ball the size of Texas floating around out there some where. At least plot it all and then send prison ships out to clean it up .
Why not ban newspapers which are redundant today ?
Pulp mills shut down , boiler plants , chemical reductions , delivery emissions.
Makes as much sense as the straw crusade .
On the business channels the question is being asked “how much difference will not using straws/going vegan/driving e-cars make in our climate”. Time after time the answer is almost zero. I have no desire to vote for anyone who promises to ban “fossil fuel”.
Climate change as portrayed in our media is designed to make us feel victimized. At the core of this message is the thought “I’m a victim of severe weather/tornado/flood/hurricane/etc. something has to be done to stop climate change”. I reject that stupidity completely.
Remember the Ozone Hoax ?
Well.
What we’re going thru now is the last vestiges
of the global warming HOAX
Yes, as the planet becomes cooler
and crop yields decline
It will always be the fault of the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
as seen by JERKS who are at the
UN and ALL of their ancillary puppets.
We will survive this
BUT
It is entirely in every ones best interests
if the UN and ALL their allied agencies
were dissolved and abandoned.
They were never anything but a monument to the
stupidity of Roosevelt and Truman
Just like the League of Nations was a monument
to the stupidity of Woodrow Wilson.
Ah yes, President Truman. He sent one of his most trusted aides to San Francisco to pave the way for the creation of the United Nations. For some years it was believed that the aide was a Russian spy. The release of the “Verona Papers” in 1994 – decrypted soviet cablegrams – provided the proof that he was indeed a spy.
So then you look at Truman’s March 21, 1947 Executive Order 9835 (the ‘Loyalty Order’) which somehow missed his aide. That order led directly to the House Committee on Un-American Activities – which so upset Hollywood, and to Senator McCarthy’s efforts to get communist sympathizers out of the US State Department.
Was Truman ‘stupid’? Well, he did try to eliminate the Marine Corps, some to the Army and the rest to the Navy for on-board ship duties. And who were the only ‘ready to move’ troops he had available when North Korea invaded the South? I would use the word ‘ignorant’. His early political career at local levels didn’t really prepare him to think on a world scale…..
Julia, thanks for this. Keep us in the loop. :0)
I am getting the strong impression places like CNN are going down and hoping to take the economy with them .
A seven hour soft ball game of would you eliminate straws questions with tones of tyranny thrown in . Yes nationalize the fossil fuel industry by all means .
Over 50 million abortions per year but Bernie wants to dial that up in Africa .. you know humanly of course . After all that’s what they want. He seems to be clairvoyant about what African women need .
Love his reaction to the baby crying in his audience . Has Bernie a bigger baby problem or is he just tired and grumpy running on empty ? Not a good look but at least it was real . If babies don’t like you chances are their MOM’s don’t either .
I would love to see Bernie beat out the store manikin and the fake Indian if nothing else just better entertainment value .
More reasons you cant trust these lying liberal journalists since most of them are Democrats and Globalists
Any excuse to rant and rave will do. It’s hardly new for US and the surrounding areas to be pummelled by storms, hurricanes and tornadoes. Ranting is hardly thorough science but never let the truth get in the way of good story.