Scientist Corrects Gullible Reporter: ‘Climate Change’ Not Causing More Tornadoes

News Busters ^ | 5/25/13 | Matthew Sheffield

[Impala64ssa]

As far as hurricane Sandy, I remember in science class the teacher explaining to us young skulls full of mush how the northeast, particularly the NYC area was long overdue to be hit by a major hurricane like the one in 1938, and this was back in the 70's. At any given moment, some part of the world experiences unusual weather, whether it's hotter/colder/drier/wetter/windier than normal. If their is climate change, then it's G-D made climate change not man-made. And isn't it funny how the PC not-sees refer to it as MAN-made global warming, now climate change, now that their credibility is in question, rather than something more "gender neutral" like HUMAN-made climate change? As if we're too stooopid, unsafistikaded and ignernt to catch on to the transparent attempt at subtle manipulation.

[mountainlion]

The Internet is causing more tornadoes, well at least more people are hearing about them so it seems like there are more.

[txrefugee]

Well, someone needs to tell the “experts” at The Weather Channel this news. They blame climate change for everything but the short skirts their women wear.

[Cowboy Bob]

When I was living in New Orleans in the early ‘80s, every hurricane season there was speculation about the killer storm. They couldn’t predict when it would happen, only that it would. 30 years later Katrina came.

[Sacajaweau]

I always used a World Almanac for a reference every time my sons moved. It was mom's hurricane/disaster warning system etc

Wasn't happy when one moved to Japan for a couple of years....Earthquake was served almost everyday with breakfast!!

Too bad my daughter didn't search hurricane weather when they booked their honeymoon on a Caribbean Island. And it was a big one.

[Strategerist]

We’ve had only half the normal number of tornadoes so far this year.

However, throughout this week there could be a number of significant tornado outbreaks, starting with today in KS/NE, so the gap below normal will probably shrink quite a bit before the month ends.

[hinckley buzzard]

The Internet is a source of error and manipulation as well as fact. This is why it is crucial that Conservatives adopt a healthy, informed skepticism about the real world.

Anti-intellectualism, knee-jerk negativity and credulous swallowing of bogus conspiracy theories are not skepticism, do severe harm, and should be attacked whenever they present themselves.

[DanielRedfoot]

I remember recently hearing a reporter babe, asking if a asteroid that flew particularly close to Earth was due to global warming...Not kidding

[Sherman Logan]

By contrast, a majority, 56 percent, believed incorrectly that gun violence had increased. This misperception was almost certainly created by the press which has been feverish in its coverage of mass shootings...

To be fair, the number of mass shootings has indeed increased, depending on where you set your starting point. And quite certainly the severity of the mass shootings has gone up.

Overall gun violence (and crime, including violent crime) is down, but that doesn't make the news.

It's like the massive coverage given airplane crashes producing the impression that airplanes are more dangerous than cars, when the opposite is very much the truth.

The media's focus on mass shootings is no doubt partly driven by anti-gun ideology, but it is fairly obviously driven even more by the news value and ratings possiblities of these stories.

Nobody tunes in to see a story about somebody not getting shot in Cleveland.

[Strategerist]

The other problem is that people have worked themselves into a blind seething rage of contempt at ALL scientists because of global warming; you can’t have a thread about a discovery at CERN or some astronomer discovering a new black hole without people posting the same anti-global warming rant they’ve posted a billion times before, and then going on to mock the scientists (in a COMPLETELY different field than climatology) that the original article was discussing.

Science is a pretty big field and pretty specialized, with very specific training that often isolates fairly unrelated fields.

And even within meteorology it’s hardly true there’s a universal GW agenda. Every time the yearly hurricane activity forecast comes out people fall all over themselves to attack it and its authors, and usually make the claim that they are basing their activity forecast on “global warming.”

Most operational (day-to-day or perhaps looking months ahead) mets I know cringe every time a specific weather disaster is linked to Global Warming. Bill Gray and his group that have long done hurricane season forecasts always include a section in their full forecast (that is rarely read) specifically stating that the increased hurrricane activity since 1995 has nothing to do with GW but is a decadal cycle).

And I saw the person that leads the NWS/NHC seasonal hurricane forecast in a presentation specifically shoot down a couple of young goths who were begging him to say Katrina was caused by global warming - I thought they were going to cry.

[bert]

All weather results from glonal climate change. The climate is in a constant state of flux

[Jeff Chandler]

your garden-variety End Times lunatic

You know who you are.

[Strategerist]

Part of the driver of this sort of thing is rampant “old fogeyism” - the idea that ALL things used to be better but everything is now steadily going to hell. It’s a sickness that Conservatives are particularly prone to.

The other thing that people have a false impression of is that the world is more peaceful now than it has ever been in human history - the chance of an average person dying violently has NEVER lower - be it murder or war.

The human population has grown exponentially into the multi-billions but war between states has become practically non-existent. You have some civil wars but the death rates are pretty low compared to history (20 million people died in the Chinese Taiping Rebellion, out of a much smaller population, in the 1850s-60s.

And terrorism just doesn’t kill many people. But it gets media coverage.

The perception that the world is sinking into widespread war is also fueled by the End Times Apocalpytikook frauds, shysters, and liars. They try to exploit the gullible by simply listing some wars or possible wars (without the context of how the world was MORE violent 100 years ago and 1000 years ago).

[SeminoleCounty]

Weather Channel is owned by NBC....so they will always spew the Global Warming Hoax....unfortunately. Expect more nonsense from them

[Larry Lucido]

Bears repeating, my FRiend:

Part of the driver of this sort of thing is rampant “old fogeyism” - the idea that ALL things used to be better but everything is now steadily going to hell. It’s a sickness that Conservatives are particularly prone to.

[CottShop]

[[Scientist Corrects Gullible Reporter: ‘Climate Change’ Not Causing More Tornadoes]]

He corrected her statement, but he didn’t correct the reporter- that reporter will simpyl say the samel ie over and over again- they have an agenda, and nothign is goign to stand i ntheir way- not even the truth- they will get them essage otu that if it’s hot out, it’s “Man-Caused cliamte change to blame”- if it’;s rainy out it’s “Man-Caused climate change to blame” If it’s cloudy out “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame” if it’s slightly humid out “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame” if it’s dry as a bone out “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame”

If species die off “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame” if spiders havem ore offsrpring “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame” if desert tortouises face south at night “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame” if spotted owl eggs get eaten by racoons “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame”

If viruses becoem resistent to anti-biotics “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame” if toenail fungus takes a day logner to clear up “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame” if peopel in idaho yield more potatoes “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame” if peopel in Idaho yield less potatoes “It’s Man-Caused climate change to blame”

On and on it goes- No, that reporter was not corrected- just hteir statement was

[Bernard Marx]

Science is a pretty big field and pretty specialized, with very specific training that often isolates fairly unrelated fields.

And ignoring specialists from one field -- especially historical geology -- while emphasizing propaganda from others in the guise of "climate science" is a major reason we're in this muddle. Another is the fact that many people today simply are not well educated in science and aren't capable of informed critical thinking.

Anyone seriously interested in this topic should read a great book I just finished: "Global Warming: Alarmists, Skeptics & Deniers." It's written by G. Dedrick Robinson, Professor Emeritus of Geology at James Madison University in Virginia. Dr S. Fred Singer, Chairman Science & Environmental Policy Project, says:

"The author makes it very clear that a changing climate is not unusual. It is in fact the norm -- although change is often so slow that humans cannot detect it directly. But historical geologists know how to display the evidence to the public. This may be the single most important contribution of this well-written and fact-filled book.”

[I still care]

I was searching websites concerning hurricanes once (haven’t been able to find this particular website since, but I know the story is out there somewhere) and read about a hurricane so severe that Spain actually stopped colonizing Florida for a while. It happened, I think, in the 1500’s - totally wiped out a larger settlement, and the Spanish said hmmm, let’s think about this.

Giant storms are not increasing, they’ve always been there. Very few people know that the British were driven out of Wash DC while burning the WH because a violent tornado materialized in front of them - scared the living daylights out of them. Certainly a rare event.

[I still care]

The tornado that saved the US capital in 1812.

http://www.afweather.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123042444

[I still care]

Well during the war of 1812 but it was really 1814.