The Weather Channel website kicked off the week with a long Twitter thread warning of the “climate migration crisis” happening around the world as a result of global warming-fueled extreme weather.
The tweet storm is meant to promote the Weather Channel’s series called “Exodus: The Climate Migration Crisis” — no doubt alluding to the Biblical tale of Moses leading the Hebrews out of Egypt.
The tweet storm comes as wildfires rage across the western U.S. and intense, near-record heat scorches much of Europe, though links between those events, especially wildfires, and global warming are tenuous.
The IBM-owned website featured a story Monday about Massachusetts coastal residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed by massive flooding in the wake of nor’easters last winter.
[Thread] Water comes slowly at first. Skies open up in the afternoon now. People start avoiding certain streets at high tide. The nuisances pile up. Houses get raised, then raised again. Insurance people are talking about “repetitive loss properties.” Homeowners are worrying.
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) August 6, 2018
A recent World Bank study looking only at Latin America and parts of Africa and Asia sees up to 142 million people migrating within their own countries because of climate change impacts in the coming decades.
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) August 6, 2018
These disruptions are happening, and the way they’re playing out in different places is a complicated knot of local factors, with weather, infrastructure, politics, violence and more playing a part.
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) August 6, 2018
This isn’t the first Weather Channel effort to connect global warming to everyday weather events. Earlier this year, the Channel delayed a climate PR campaign until there were no more winter storms.
Once settled on, the Weather Channel’s website had a banner reading, “THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE” for an entire day to highlight “climate” stories from all 50 states.
The Weather Channel also retooled the front page of its website in June 2017 when President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. The site featured “The United States of Climate Change” series.
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Are they implying that the climate is changing so fast they can’t predict the weather? It is all so new we can’t see it coming any more. I think I’ll get my weather forecast from someone who has a sense of ability and integrity.
Alarmism sells. I watch the Weather Channel muted.
Kind of a job for Tony Heller. I don’t have the tools. Interesting thing is that the 7 day temp predictions on the Weather channel run often close to 4C wrong, meaning exaggerated.
There are two other exaggerations, the Humidex and the Wind Chill. Here’s the SCIENTIFIC PRONOUNCMENT. It FEELS LIKE. Wind chill and humidity work both in summer and winter. In essence what the Weather Channel is doing is selling sensationalism AND SCARING PEOPLE.
TWC supper time show features a dweeb, Rick Knabb. Obama appointed Dr. Rick as head of the Hurricane research center. A true believer.
He was positively giddy describing the event and how close he sat to the President.
Sycophant. 45 year – old virgin.
Keep an eye on your kids and who they’re listening to.
Climate migration ? Excuse me . This is what happens when you country is bombed to dust , your girls raped and your boys taken away to be used as bullet stoppers .
Screw the weather excuse . Start rebuilding and stay the F out of other peoples affairs .
Most countries have reason to not be so arrogantly preachy .