Lauren Loftus, whose bio says she’s a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and has contributed to the Washington Post, Phoenix Magazine and Arizona Central, thinks that the tsunami warning that was triggered today after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck just north of Anchorage, Alaska is proof that climate change is real:
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Did you mean to delete this, @thelaurenloftus? pic.twitter.com/i3111bHBZ8
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) December 1, 2018
There is a TSUNAMI warning in ALASKA. Please explain to me how climate change "isn't real"?? https://t.co/TB2QmfMFGX
— Lauren Loftus (@thelaurenloftus) November 30, 2018
Of course, a tsunami warning after an earthquake in Alaska which is located on the Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire where thousands of earthquakes occur every year has absolutely nothing to do with CO2 emissions and a warming planet, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯ :
"Earthquakes are common in this region, says the United States Geological Survey. Over the past century, 14 other earthquakes of 6.0 magnitude and above have occurred within 150 km (93.2 miles) of the earthquake that hit this morning near Anchorage." https://t.co/p13u5WmlrU
— Abe Greenwald (@AbeGreenwald) November 30, 2018
This is a really, really bad take from someone trying to convince readers that climate change is real:
There weren’t any earthquakes before 1960. Right?
— Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) November 30, 2018
as much as I know that climate change is real and contributed to by humans. Tsunamis are not weather or climate related phenomenon. It is a wave phenomenon caused by an earthquake….As a meteorologist, it is surprising how often the public thinks a tsunami is atmosphere related. https://t.co/SoemPK1UVI
— Marshall Shepherd (@DrShepherd2013) November 30, 2018
This is basic science though:
they must not teach science at Cronkite_Asu
— heretic (@black_budgets) November 30, 2018
And it also shows no knowledge of the history of the region:
A tsunami destroyed my hometown of Valdez in 1964. Also Alaska is one of the hottest earthquake zones on the entire planet and has been for all of human history. https://t.co/glwdsKCUYa
— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) November 30, 2018
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