{"id":320188,"date":"2022-10-10T07:40:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=320188"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:26:45","slug":"the-medias-rank-dishonesty-about-climate-change-and-hurricane-ian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2022\/10\/the-medias-rank-dishonesty-about-climate-change-and-hurricane-ian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media\u2019s Rank Dishonesty About \u2018Climate Change\u2019 And Hurricane Ian"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Jerome Corsi, American Thinker<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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As Hurricane Ian hit Florida, Michael Mann of the infamous\u00a0\u201chockey stick\u201d<\/a>\u00a0global warming graph, and Susan Joy Hassol, publisher of\u00a0Climate Communication\u2019s \u201cQuick Facts,<\/a>\u201d which are devoted to explaining extreme weather events as anthropogenic catastrophes, rushed an op-ed piece into print. Their\u00a0opinion piece<\/a>, published in\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0and predictably entitled, \u201cHurricane Ian Is No Anomaly,\u201d blamed global warming. Mann and Hassol editorialized:<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s 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\u2019s more water vapor in the atmosphere and sea levels are higher. Hurricane Ian is the latest example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mann and Hassol argued that \u201cthe storms of the past five years\u2014Harvey, Maria, Florence, Michael, Ida, and Ian\u2014aren\u2019t 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 \u2018greenhouse gas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201cpattern of stronger hurricanes, typhoons, and superstorms\u201d because CO2 emitted by burning hydrocarbon fuels since the Industrial Revolution has caused \u201cthe oceans to set record levels of warmth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Shellenberger, author of\u00a0Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All<\/em><\/a>, has\u00a0documented<\/a>\u00a0that the mainstream media reliably jumped on Hurricane Ian to play their role as the climate hysterics\u2019 echo chamber. The Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and ABC News all ran stories claiming hurricane frequency is on the rise, and that climate change is rapidly fueling super hurricanes.<\/p>\n

Shellenberger insists that all such claims are false. \u201cThe increasing cost of hurricane damage can be explained entirely by more people and more property in harm\u2019s way,\u201d he wrote in a blog piece entitled,\u00a0\u201cMedia Lying About Climate and Hurricanes,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0published on his website. \u201cConsider how much more developed Miami Beach is today compared to a century ago. Once you adjust for rising wealth, there is no trend of increased damage.\u201d Shellenberger also charges that both the Financial Times and the New York Times misrepresented data from the U.S. government\u2019s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), purporting to show rising hurricane frequency in landfalls hitting the United States.<\/p>\n

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Image:\u00a0Hurricane Ian<\/a>. Twitter screen grab.<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0NOAA webpage<\/a>\u00a0that these outlets cite\u2014and that Shellenberger argues they misrepresent\u2014is titled \u201cGlobal Warming and Hurricanes: An Overview of Current Research Results.\u201d The author is\u00a0Thom Knutson<\/a>, a senior scientist at NOAA and at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), last revised the article on October 3, 2022.<\/p>\n

In his article, Knutson correctly notes that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has repeatedly predicted global warming will cause increased hurricane activity because hurricanes generally form over relatively warm sea surfaces. Thus, he writes, IPCC scientists have used statistical analyses and mathematical models to find a correlation between sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean (SSTs) and the Power Dissipation Index (PDI). The latter is \u201can aggregate measure of Atlantic hurricane activity, combining frequency, intensity, and duration of hurricanes.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOAA\u2019s data found that \u201cAtlantic SSTs and PDI have risen sharply since the 1970s, and there is some evidence that PDI levels in recent years are higher than in the previous active Atlantic hurricane era in the 1950s and 60s.\u201d But the key to the NOAA analysis is the following:<\/p>\n

Read More @ AmericanThinker.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jerome Corsi, American Thinker: As Hurricane Ian hit Florida, Michael Mann of the infamous\u00a0\u201chockey stick\u201d\u00a0global warming graph, and Susan Joy Hassol, publisher of\u00a0Climate Communication\u2019s \u201cQuick Facts,\u201d which are devoted to explaining extreme weather events as anthropogenic catastrophes, rushed an op-ed piece into print. Their\u00a0opinion piece, published in\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0and predictably entitled, \u201cHurricane Ian Is No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[139692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}