Claims that hurricanes are becoming more expensive, more frequent, and more intense because of climate change are false
- The increasing cost of hurricane damage can be explained entirely by more people and more property in harm’s way.
- NOAA expects a 25% decline in hurricane frequency in the future, and a 5% increase in intensity by 2100.
Evidence Of Deliberate Deception
- The New York Times graph inappropriately cherry-picks data from the post-1980 period while the Financial Times graph misrepresents improved hurricane detection as rising hurricane frequency.
- Four of the main ways the media mislead the public about climate change and hurricanes
- Misrepresent data showing improved observations of hurricanes as evidence of more frequent hurricanes; Misrepresent hypotheses (e.g., that some hurricanes may become more intense by 2100) as facts in the present without mentioning that median projections suggest a decrease in all categories of storms
- Cherry-pick data to present trends in a relatively recent period since the 1980s and ignore the fact that there is much longer-term data available
- Confuse increasing damage with increasing intensity, even as there is a strong understanding that what and where we build explains all escalating disaster damage.
The Climate Alarmists’ War on Scientists
- John Podesta and his Center for American Progress launched a campaign of character assassination against leading climate and hurricane researcher Roger Pielke, Jr.
- Because his scientific work on hurricanes undermines climate alarmism, progressive activists and Democrats in Congress and the White House have vilified him
- The media are consciously and deliberately misleading the public about the relationship between climate change and hurricanes
- That means they are lying
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/media-lying-about-climate-and-hurricanes
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