CNN’s Don Lemon was shut down by the acting director of the NOAA’s National Hurricane Center on Tuesday after he asked about the effect climate change had on Hurricane Ian.
Jamie Rhome joined CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight” to talk about Hurricane Ian, which is nearing Florida’s cost as it possibly strengthens to a Category 5 storm. [bold, links added]
Lemon noted that meteorologists have said Hurricane Ian could enter “another period of rapid intensification” and asked Rhome what effect climate change had had on the “phenomena.”
“We can come back and talk about climate change at a later time. I want to focus on the here and now. We think the rapid intensification is probably almost done. There could be a little bit more intensification as it is still over the warm waters of the eastern Gulf of Mexico but I don’t think we’re going to get any more rapid intensification,” Rhome said.
“Listen, I’m just trying to get, you said you want to talk about climate change. But what effect does climate change have on this phenomenon that is happening now? Because it seems these storms are intensifying. That’s the question,” Lemon asked again.
“I don’t think you can link climate change to any one event. On the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making storms worse. But to link it to any one event, I would caution against that,” Rhome said.
Lemon said he grew up in Florida and added that something was making these storms intensify. He asked Rhome about the parts of Florida that weren’t going to be taking a “direct hit” from the storm.
“It’s really going to be a big event for not just Florida but also Georgia and South Carolina,” Rhome said.
“Florida’s coastline has been massively developed. Is this impending storm a warning about that, given the strength of the storms that we are now seeing, as I said before, much bigger in intensity than in my 50-something years on this earth growing up on the Gulf coast?” Lemon followed up.
Rhome said a lot of people were moving to Florida and added that they don’t have a lot of experience with hurricanes. “I’m really worried about them, hoping that they’re, rather than try to tackle this one on their own, they’re heeding the advice of local officials,” he continued.
CNN announced recently that Lemon would be ending “Don Lemon Tonight” because the anchor is set to move to the network’s new morning show.
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Shut Lemmon head down? no, but he could have and should have. A very brief history lesson on past hurricanes would show this, after all records of hurricanes go back far enough to prove that there is no man made global warming. this NOAA guy did nothing to bring out the truth on that matter but I suppose he was not expecting anything other than to report on what was going on currently.
Joe Bastardi knows some statistics about hurricane frequency and intensity that should shut the mouth of any smart-@ss MSM host. People don’t notice, don’t tally what isn’t happening, but one major hurricane and some misleading headlines fogs their minds.
They tried to blame Hurricanes Katrina. Sandy, Harvey and Irma on Global Warming/Climate Change the M.S. Media bottom dwellers of course the Crappy News Network leading the way more reasons to Boycott the M.S. Fake News
Don Lemon’s only expertise seems to relate to CXKG
Maybe that’s why he finds jobs
regardless of significance
Don Lemon is even an embarrassment to media stooges, and that is a very low bar to crawl under.
The deadliest hurricane in history remains the unnamed hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas in 1904. It killed an estimated 6 thousand to 12 thousand people. There are no reported deaths as yet from Ian. Climate is ten times safer today than it was a hundred years ago. Hurricanes have been happening for hundreds of years and perhaps longer. The demonization of energy by irresponsible “journalists” is killing more people than hurricanes do – by far. Listen up Don Lemon. A lack of energy kills 300 times more people than the climate does. Hurricanes are not caused by more CO2 – the basic ingredient of our carbon-based life on earth. More CO2 has made our environment greener, stronger, more drought tolerant and abundant. Because CO2 is the single most important ingredient of the ecosystem and of agriculture (along with water). Water is abundant, but any level of CO2 below 2,000ppm is a starvation level low. It’s why greenhouse growers ADD up to 1,600ppm CO2 to their greenhouse operations. More recycled CO2 from fossil fuel use is a strong part of how we can feed the nearly eight billion global population better compared to how well we fed 3.5 billion a hundred years ago. A 0.01% increase in 0.04% CO2 has made the environment greener, stronger, more drought tolerant, and abundant. I’m a farmer with a B.Sc Advanced (biology). I know the science. You have no idea what the science says Don Lemon. Do your homework. Drop your hyperbolic false rhetoric.
It is interesting that when President Trump had been in office only one month and a hurricane hit, it was blamed on him. His policies do not cause hurricanes, but even if they did, it would take years to have an impact.