Essay by Eric Worrall
Try to imagine TV and weather feeds packed with even more climate propaganda, in the middle of emergency storm preparations.
Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don’t most forecasts mention it?
November 23, 20225:00 AM ET
REBECCA HERSHERAt global climate talks that just wrapped up, one of the few areas of agreement was about the worldwide toll of climate-driven weather disasters.
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But that science is largely missing from public weather forecasts that millions of people in the U.S. rely on. As severe weather gets more common, scientists and forecasters are contending with a sneakily difficult question: How do we work together to explain the role of climate change?
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Hurricane Ian led to some confusing climate change communication
The gap between scientists and forecasters was on full display when Hurricane Ian hit Florida in September. The storm gathered strength over abnormally hot water in the Gulf of Mexico – water made hotter by human-caused global warming.
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But forecasts and statements from the National Hurricane Center didn’t mention how climate change was likely to make Hurricane Ian more severe.
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/23/1136809782/climate-change-is-making-the-weather-more-severe-why-dont-most-forecasts-mention
Grow up Rebecca Hersher. Stop thinking about your priorities and start thinking about what it must be like for people preparing to face a major storm.
There is plenty of time for your climate proselytising after the emergency has passed.
People facing an natural disaster, in the middle of preparations for that disaster, need useful information which will help them survive, not useless irrelevancies like discussions of whose fault the storm is.
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NPR has fallen totally off the rails (if it ever was on the rails to begin with).
There’s an interesting podcast/video series by Peter Boghossian (someone I don’t think you could possibly accuse of having a conservative bias) called “All Things Re-Considered“, where he goes through some past NPR All things considered episodes and outlines their biased and shoddy reporting. Well worth a listen if you have time.
Not sure if it’s as bad as the ABC here in Australia though… they had a segment that I happened on yesterday where they attributed ALL costs of ALL extreme weather to climate change. There is little to no legacy media that is capable of honesty. It’s likely that they were never honest, but now we are able to much more easily look at the underlying data and see through the charade. I fear a clamp down is coming, free and open access (as little as there currently is) to data is a massive threat to those who desire power and control.
Opinion science and advocacy science work well in NPR “reporting” priorities. This too shall pass, hopefully.
“NPR: Why Don’t Severe Weather Forecasts Mention Climate Change?”
BECAUSE WEATHER ISN’T CLIMATE!
Not sure what planet she lives on, all we heard was how climate change makes it worse, fact free assertations 24-7 before during and after weather events.
If she’s this clueless and out of touch she should be fired and forced to start over again.
I went to the website, no way to comment.
As to hurricanes, i would again point out that the models gave 65% chance of above average hurricane season, 10% for below average, so the model had a 1 in 10 chance of being right. Far worse odds than flipping a coin.
Right after hurricane Ian the attribution wizards said the model showed the storm had 10% more rain than it would have except for our contributions, so that seems to be on pretty solid ground.
Not
From the article: “Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don’t most forecasts mention it?”
There is no evidence Human-caused Climate Change (that’s what she means) is making the weather more severe. That is a figment of Alarmists’ imaginations and their wishful thinking.
Most meteorologists are smart enough not to claim that human-caused climate change is causing the weather they are reporting on.
If any of my local forecasters ever start inserting climate change propaganda into the forecast, they are going to get a very nasty letter from me. They and their bosses. I’ll ask their boss why they have a forecaster that does not understand how science works; that doesn’t understand the difference between speculation and evidence.
Worse, there’s more evidence of weather getting LESS severe than more severe.
Anybody can put the envelope to their head like Johnny Carson, er I mean plug all their incorrect assumptions into a “model” and conclude something about every “bad weather” event is supposedly “worse because climate change.”
What a crock of shit.
NPR Science Desk Reporter Rebecca Hersher: An “emote”.
An emote – One who makes decisions based purely on emotions rather then rational judgement; one who is overly emotional in lieu of present rationality.
For that matter, why don’t severe weather forecasts ever mention space aliens, the loch ness monster and bigfoot?
NPR readers won’t know the difference will they.
*sigh*
About the author: Rebecca Hershey has a Bachelors degree (undisclosed field) from Hahvaad and works for NPR. Also a grantee of the Pulitzer Center ( a lunatic left organization promoting fringe causes like the 1619 project; no relation to the Pulitzer Prize organization). WHAT A MAROON! Who seriously reads this pulp fiction (The kind of shocking and sensational fiction found in a pulp magazine)?
“Grow up Rebecca Hersher. Stop thinking about your priorities and start thinking about what it must be like for people preparing to face a major storm.
There is plenty of time for your climate proselytising after the emergency has passed.”
Global ACE is at 74% of “normal” and even the N. Atlantic ACE is at 96%!
Global Tropical Cyclone Activity | Ryan Maue (climatlas.com)
And Tornados? Are under the 20th percentile:
Inflation Adjusted Tornado Running Totals – Storm Prediction Center WCM Page (noaa.gov)
She doesn’t need to grow up! She needs to give her brain a chance!
Nominally it takes 30 years of data collection and analysis to determine what is really climate change vs weather cycles that are part of the current climate. Mankind does not know what the optimum global climate actually is let alone how to achieve it.