Posted on 10/08/2022 4:55:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Although mainstream media outlets purport to rely on scientific publications, whether deliberately or not, they often misrepresent their contents.
As Hurricane Ian hit Florida, Michael Mann of the infamous “hockey stick” global warming graph, and Susan Joy Hassol, publisher of Climate Communication’s “Quick Facts,” which are devoted to explaining extreme weather events as anthropogenic catastrophes, rushed an op-ed piece into print. Their opinion piece, published in The Guardian and predictably entitled, “Hurricane Ian Is No Anomaly,” blamed global warming. Mann and Hassol editorialized:
Climate change once seemed a distant threat. No more. We now know its face, and all too well. We see it in every hurricane, torrential rainstorm, flood, heatwave, wildfire, and drought. It’s even detectable in our daily weather. Climate disruption has changed the background conditions in which all weather occurs: the oceans and air are warmer, there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere and sea levels are higher. Hurricane Ian is the latest example.
Mann and Hassol argued that “the storms of the past five years—Harvey, Maria, Florence, Michael, Ida, and Ian—aren’t natural disasters as much as human-made disasters whose amplified ferocity is fueled by the continued burning of fossil fuels and the increase in heat-trapping carbon pollution, a planet-warming ‘greenhouse gas.’”
As Green New Deal Neo-Marxist dogma, the Mann-Hassol argument is ideologically compelling. Yet the historical record of hurricanes hitting Florida does not establish that Earth is experiencing a unique “pattern of stronger hurricanes, typhoons, and superstorms” because CO2 emitted by burning hydrocarbon fuels since the Industrial Revolution has caused “the oceans to set record levels of warmth.”
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They moved so seamlessly from the “frequency” of storms to their “intensity.” I can’t imagine being so totally lacking integrity as these people who just lie and when their lies prove untenable, just invent a new lie
Lulz, the media has a boatload of “rank dishonesty” on many, many topics, etc. such as COVID, Trump, etc., etc.
It’s no longer news or actual journalism driven, it’s 99.5% agenda driven.
The weather is affected by rivers of air. Sometimes things get stuck in either drought or storms. The politicians don’t know chit and the climatologists know better.
As Green New Deal Neo-Marxist dogma, the Mann-Hassol argument is ideologically compelling.
That idea smacks of SFB ideology. Worse it seeks to blow the Creator out of the water, by demeaning the science of creation. The planet earth was created to support humanity for as long as there is humanity needing the earth as a home.
It will continue to do it’s job without the “help” of so called scientists.
Corsi used to post here.
Before he was demonized in the enemedia.
“Rapid Intensification” is all we heard from The Weather Channel during Ian. They acted like this has just started happening in the last few years due to “climate change”. This narrative is their bread and butter. They overuse a term until it means nothing. Did anyone see Jim Cantore almost break down in tears and then get angry that climate change was doing this and so we all needed to start paying attention and do something about it? Very dramatic and I had to turn it off at that point.
Put a hundred white liberal 'elites' in a room and there won't be an ounce of integrity between them...
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