Howlingly Wrong About Hurricane History
Correction Please! Howlingly Wrong About Hurricane History
A sampling of news articles:
Item: While reporting on Hurricane Harvey on August 28, the New York Times politicized the death and destruction caused by the storm. In an opinion piece entitled “Hurricane Harvey Was No Surprise,” the Times wrote that President Trump “shouldn’t have been surprised” by the severity of the storm since “climate science has repeatedly shown that global warming is increasing the odds of extreme precipitation and storm surge flooding.” In an appeal to blind faith in climate-alarmist scientists, the article claims, “There is now so much evidence of increasing extremes that anyone who understands the science — or trusts the scientists in their government doing the research — should expect that records will continue to be broken.”
Item: Two weeks later, as residents of Florida were dealing with Hurricane Irma, the Times was at it again — this time in an article that pretended not to be an opinion piece. That article — entitled “Hurricane Irma Linked to Climate Change? For Some, a Very ‘Insensitive’ Question” and dated September 11 — took EPA boss Scott Pruitt to task for calling the media out for politicizing Harvey and Irma, saying, “For scientists, drawing links between warming global temperatures and the ferocity of hurricanes is about as controversial as talking about geology after an earthquake. But in Washington, where science is increasingly political, the fact that oceans and atmosphere are warming and that the heat is propelling storms into superstorms has become as sensitive as talking about gun control in the wake of a mass shooting.”
JBS Member or ShopJBS.org Customer?
Sign in with your ShopJBS.org account username and password or use that login to subscribe.
Subscribe Now
- 24 Issues Per Year
- Digital Edition Access
- Exclusive Subscriber Content
- Audio provided for all articles
- Unlimited access to past issues
- Cancel anytime.
- Renews automatically
Subscribe Now
- 24 Issues Per Year
- Print edition delivery (USA)
*Available Outside USA - Digital Edition Access
- Exclusive Subscriber Content
- Audio provided for all articles
- Unlimited access to past issues
- Cancel anytime.
- Renews automatically