The New York Times published an article on the alleged link between global warming and Hurricane Florence that continued to push a misleading narrative about the storm.
The NYTimes’ article published Wednesday claimed “the oceans are heating up,” adding “[t]he waters Florence encountered were, in fact, warmer than normal.”
To reinforce that point, The NYTimes’ article, “Humans Are Making Hurricanes Worse. Here’s How,” linked to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) piece on warm ocean waters off New England and eastern Canada.
A Times reporter made a similar claim in a video posted the day before Florence made landfall in North Carolina on Friday.
The report in the video claimed Florence formed in “unusually warm waters” in the Atlantic Ocean, heated up by man-made global warming.
“This is false,” tweeted Cato Institute meteorologist Ryan Maue in response to The NYTimes’ latest hurricane article.
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1042597653991833600
Florence spent most of its lifespan tracking through “abnormally cool” waters, according to sea surface temperature analyses done by Maue.
Maue’s analysis not only showed that Florence formed, then strengthened, over relatively cool waters, but rapidly weakened once it reached warmer waters near the U.S. coast. Forecasters expected the storm to strengthen, but it was torn apart by wind shear.
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1042184962093576192
Florence did eventually enter warmer waters close to the U.S. coast, where it did the opposite of what forecasters expected — it weakened.
“Ryan Maue is absolutely correct,” University of Washington climate scientist Cliff Mass told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“First, Florence spent most of its life cycle over water that was COLDER than normal,” Mass said via email. “In fact, its greatest strengthening occurred over this cool water.”
“When it approached a narrow zone of warm water near the coast, it weakened rapidly due to large amounts of vertical shear,” Mass said. “Second, when it did hit the coast, it was a marginal Cat 1 storm, not a monster.”
National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecasters initially expected Florence to make landfall as a major hurricane — Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale. But the storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane.
Florence, however, still brought heavy rainfall, storm surge, and hurricane-force winds. The storm was slowed by a high-pressure blocking system over land, meaning it spent more time dumping rain over the Carolinas.
To properly identify possible anthropogenic influences upon Florence, we should demand significantly more rigorous explanations based upon solid data analysis including modeling.
These hand-wavy “climate attribution by expert quotation” add nothing our understanding.
— Ryan Maue | weathermodels.com (@RyanMaue) September 20, 2018
The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to The NYTimes’ John Schwartz, who wrote “Humans Are Making Hurricanes Worse. Here’s How,” and did not receive a response in time for publication.
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The New York Pravda(Times)ALL THE PROPEGANDA THAT’S FIT TO PRINT more reasons for total boycott on the NYT’s and its advertisers
This article is not surprising for the NYT; the only way the NYT could surprise anyone is to publish an article that demonstrates they have even a milligram of integrity.
Who buys the NYT anymore?
Perhaps the NYT is catering to its fan base.
Like not so much people who won’t think for themselves
but
people who can’t think for themselves.
Maybe the NYT fan base will be
Distributed freely amongst the homeless.
Young people buy the NYT to impress their peers. Maybe hook up.
If you tell a lie often enough and loud enough it becomes the truth. As far as the actually truth, the general public will never hear the facts in this article.