Pielke Jr. – How Activist Scientists And MSM ‘Gaslight’ The Public On Hurricanes

Hurricane Dorian

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Hurricanes are the poster child of climate politics, says Roger Pielke Jr. (via Climate Change Dispatch).

As you can see in the actual poster [here], a popular narrative exists that hurricanes are caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants (or makes them more frequent, more intense, more wet, more slow, more fast).

Like the movie poster [here], in which the hurricane is spinning the wrong way, evidence and research have not always conformed to the narrative.

A pseudoscientific cottage industry has sprung up that associates just about every notable hurricane with climate change. Today, I take a look at recent efforts to attribute hurricanes to greenhouse gas emissions.

The impacts of climate change on hurricanes are claimed to be huge. Here are some examples from 2024:

Hurricane Milton was 40% more likely.
Hurricane Helene was more than 100% more likely.
Typhoon Shanshan was 36% more likely.
Typhoon Gaemi was about 50% more likely.
Hurricane Beryl was almost 100% more likely.

Press releases making such incredible claims flood the zone after every major storm and are uncritically repeated by the major media around the world.

Let’s take a closer look at what lies behind these press releases. Like the hurricane spinning the wrong way in Al Gore’s movie poster, the attribution tricks sit out in plain sight, visible to anyone willing to have a look.

Continued here.
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Image: Hurricane Dorian