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The Media’s Relentless Hype Over Bad Weather Has One Goal: Fear

by Alex Berenson
July 12, 2023, 1:30 PM
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floodplains floodingI don’t want to write about climate change.

Truly. I don’t know if the models are right or wrong, and I don’t want to spend my life finding out.

But the way the media now reports on the weather – not broad climate issues, but day-to-day weather – has bugged me for a while, and last night it hit (literally) close to home. [emphasis, links added]

Climate reporting in the elite media has become a series of endless, breathlessly reported firsts and 1-in-1,000-year events.

The hottest June ever in Houston! The driest August in Tokyo! The wettest April in London! The biggest wildfire in Quebec!

Oddly, one regularly finds these factoids on ESPN too: Player X is the first rookie to average 15 points, 2.2 blocks, and 1.8 steals per game since 2014.

The numbers are good, but rarely as special as the framing makes them seem. They come from producers running database dives. Slice the pie thinly enough, and a decent player looks great.

Where ESPN is hoping to impress its viewers, the extreme weather statistics have a different purpose: to frighten.

They’re meant to make readers believe that a climate apocalypse is upon us and that by only giving up gas stoves – not private planes, never private planes, only gas stoves – can we survive.

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Last night, a big thunderstorm hit New York’s Hudson Valley, where I live. (I wasn’t home. I was in Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker, where I busted out late on Day 3, a boring story I won’t tell.)

Yes, a thunderstorm in July in the Northeast. Shocker, I know.

This one was particularly slow-moving, though, and it dumped a lot of rain. Or, as the Daily News reported, “Storm in New York’s Hudson Valley kills one, brings nine inches of rain: ‘1,000-year event.’

1,000-year event? Dear Lord Above, what have we done?

Okay, let’s look at the map.

That purple area is a huge rain dump.

But that’s not a map of the United States, or even New York, or even southern New York, or even the Hudson Valley.

That rain dump covered, wait for it, a handful of towns. For some reason, a storm cell got hung up just over the Hudson River – maybe there’s a good meteorological explanation for why, maybe not.

It drenched the area to the west and slightly to the east of the river with two months of rain in a few hours.

Whole lotta rain, for sure. Our house is in that blotch somewhere. I felt bad not to be home until I got the update from my older daughter this morning: it rained, we lost power, the generator came on, and the power came back on.

Two of the three kids slept through it all. The end.

A 1-IN-1,000-YEAR EVENT, I TELL YA!

But that’s just one storm. We all know that climate change is bringing death and destruction worldwide. We all know its ravages increase every year.

Except they don’t.

In 2021, the World Meteorological Organization, which is part of the United Nations, released a 90-page “Atlas of Mortality And Economic Losses From Weather, Climate, and Water Extremes.” The relevant chart is below:

The worse climate change gets, the fewer people droughts and hurricanes kill. SOURCE

Weather-related deaths rose slightly from the 1970s through the 1980s. They have plunged 75 percent since, even though the population has nearly doubled.

Over the last decade, fewer than 50 people a day died from extreme weather – on a planet that now has 8,000,000,000 people.

The explanation for this apparent contradiction is simple. Hurricanes and drought-driven famines in very poor countries drive most weather-related deaths.

Wealthy and even middle-income countries can easily mitigate the effects of short-term extreme weather.

To take an obvious example, anyone with a car can easily escape a hurricane, providing even a few hours’ notice.

And the world, as a whole, is far richer than it was in 1970. At that point, 60 percent of the world’s population – 2.2 billion of the 3.7 billion people alive at the time – lived in extreme poverty, less than $450 per year.

By 2016, the number had fallen to 700 million out of 7.3 billion, fewer than 10 percent.

Of course, energy consumption both drives and rises with economic growth.

So the question is not if climate change is real.

It is if climate change hysteria, driven largely by people so wealthy that they will continue to live exactly as they do now whatever happens to the global economy, threatens to undo the economic growth that has been the most important factor in reducing deaths from extreme weather.

Or we could just keep looking for 1,000-year floods to scream over.

Read more at Unreported Truths

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  1. Colin Joseph Harkin says:
    2 years ago

    Hi Alex,
    This is a very good article, even though you don’t want to write about CC. I plan to keep a copy for my circle of friends.
    There have been a number of surveys recently, that in the minds of those surveyed, placed CC well down their list of major concerns. We know what’s at the top of the list of concerns, like the price of gas and how the hell am I going to pay my mortage?
    The media are really the stupid ones and I say that because they think we believe them and worse that we pay attention to what they say…
    On the climate issue, here at my place, it’s been noticeably cooler since 2019. Summer temps are not going as high (pre 2019) and winter is longer.

  2. Gary Mullennix says:
    2 years ago

    Make it bleed so we can lead with it. Don’t worry about context.

  3. Charles Wardrop says:
    2 years ago

    If only one UN compliant influential western nation’s
    government admitted that they would ot out of the scam support, the rest would (slowly) follow suit.

  4. SPURWING PLOVER says:
    2 years ago

    Sacre is with fake news and false threats until we surrender our nations soventry to a One World Government under the UN that’s what t this is all about

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