By James Taylor
CNN published an article yesterday titled, “This website helps you imagine what extreme climate change will do to your home.” According to CNN, a new website delivers “a surprisingly realistic sense of what it could look like” if your home address is struck by the ravages of climate change. To illustrate its point, CNN provided an Artificial Intelligence-manipulated photo of New York City’s Times Square engulfed in wildfire smoke.
Newsflash – wildfires have not engulfed New York City any time since SUVs were invented, nor will wildfires ever engulf New York City. Even if wildfires ever do engulf some area within hundreds of miles of New York City, the wildfires would almost certainly have been started by arsonists than climate change.
If we are going to talk about global warming and any alleged consequences, we have to look at global data. Although this past year has seen more wildfires than usual in California, with climate activists and their media sock puppets blaming global warming, NASA satellite instruments have been measuring the amount of land burned globally by wildfires since the 1990s. According to NASA, lands burned by wildfires have decreased by 24 percent since the satellite measurements first began.
Wildfires have always occurred on this planet and always will. When wildfires substantially decline as temperatures modestly warm – in conjunction with more precipitation and a greening of the Earth with more vegetation – it is counterfactual and dishonest to point to the fewer wildfires that still occur and claim that global warming is causing those that still occur.
No, CNN, wildfires are not destroying New York City, nor will they ever do so.James TaylorJames Taylor is the President of the Heartland Institute. Taylor is also director of Heartland’s Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy. Taylor is the former managing editor (2001-2014) of Environment & Climate News, a national monthly publication devoted to sound science and free-market environmentalism.
CNN is doubling down on stupid, as usual.
‘Walk toward the fire.’
Embrace the discord. Refute fear with facts.
Continue until only facts remain.
Repeat.
This are the fascinating truths of WUWT.
Viva la revolution!
Stop the maniacal religion of climate guilt.
It got down to 54 degrees F this morning in central Florida.
One can dream, can’t one?
And now, if you are able to watch UK TV programmes you can look forward to all your favourite soaps co-operating during COP26 to push the climate change agenda.
Many years ago I sat in an airport and was forced to watch cnn. It was pure propaganda then and has only gotten worse. When lies are all you have screeching them at the top of your lungs is your only choice.
Sounds like they are having a fake news fire sale.
Statista,Top cable news networks U.S. 2021, by number of viewershttps://www.statista.com/statistics/373814/cable-news-network-viewership-usa/
I can’t say that nobody watches CNN but almost nobody does.
I disagree. If the greens have their way, New York will be a depopulated forest ripe for wildfires in a couple of hundred years
Can this CoP come too soon?
I just wish they’d leave the ayahuasca, crystal meth etc alone and stop tripping.
““a surprisingly realistic sense of what it could look like” if your home address is struck by the ravages of climate change. “
The forecast for today was rain. They have weather radar etc (as well as the models) and they cannot get the daily forecast right.
CNN are pushing their nightmare vision of what it could look like. But just like Ehrlich, they’re hopelessly wrong.
So they put an orange blob in the middle of Times Square. CNN, is that some sort of Trump joke? If you paid for AI I think you should get a refund.
I hope CNN is charging Super Bowl advertising rates during the month of COP26 for its agenda news (ad) placements.
From the article: “When wildfires substantially decline as temperatures modestly warm”
it’s even worse than that. Temperatures are actually cooling modestly and have been doing so during the current fire season.
Human-caused Climate Change is not visible, and is certainly not having an effect on wildfires anywhere on Earth.
Now hold on a minute. It seems only yesterday that Gore , Kerry and the media were predicting that in a few years time rising sea levels would be totally engulfing Manhatten’s streets, squares and office malls. Can you have a wild fire when you are several meters underwater ?
According to Wikipedia a wildfire is in an area of combustible vegetation and uncontrollable. Outrageous exaggeration happens a lot at CNN.
Clown News Network substantiates its clown credentials once again.
Is this claim by CNN the equivalent of (literally) shouting fire in a crowded metropolis?
Maybe CNN is participating in deflection news at this point….
U.K., Europe natural gas prices see spike on fading hopes of more Gazprom supplies (yahoo.com)
Stop the lying MSM and life goes back to a better normal
CNN report that Time Square is “Fiery but mostly peaceful”.
There is more chance of New York burning due to riots in 2024 than global warming in the next 100 years.
It is the Communist Newsless Network….just don’t watch it …don’t do it.
I guess the evolving energy crisis will not really happen because CNN will not cover it.
Instead of using AI to create false pictures of a catastrophe, why don’t these reporters go back through the billions of actual photos of flooded towns from 1850-1950? Most of them can even be found online now.
This might….
‘Lawless city?’ Worry after Portland police don’t stop chaos – ABC News (go.com)
Cartoon News Network. Living up to their standards as usual. No ethics, no purpose but to sell advertising, and no scruples about lying every time they speak.