Climate panic is big business. It must be, with the way the media have been falling all over themselves to link literally everything to climate change and link climate change to literally everything. Yesterday, Gordon went after CBS News for trying to use "Barbie" to shoehorn the climate crisis even harder into the public's consciousness. Can't believe they didn't complete the set and warn us that pretty soon, going outside would feel exactly like having the A-bomb dropped on you. It's a little disappointing. But "Oppenheimer" will be in theaters for at least a few more weeks, so maybe they'll get around to it.
Anyway, my point here is that the mainstream media are pretending to be concerned about the implications of summer heatwaves while actually reveling in them, because the weather has afforded them yet another opportunity to sow the seeds of panic that, if they take root, can fuel the fire of a major left-wing agenda. Did you catch this offering from the Associated Press? There are plenty more hot takes where this one came from:
The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe and they are becoming more common, a new study finds. Researchers say they could not have happened without the continuing buildup of warming gases in the air. https://t.co/bMmPjTzZ2O
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 25, 2023
"Researchers," or climate activist propagandists masquerading as researchers? I'd put my money on the latter.
This is nonsense propaganda.
— JWF (@JammieWF) July 25, 2023
Definitely. But, much like the heat waves themselves, the propaganda is spreading, gripping the globe and becoming more common.
Ryan Maue is a meteorologist and climate scientist. But unlike so many of his agenda-driven colleagues, his research and conclusions don't rely on cherry-picked data. He's a big-picture kind of guy, and as such, he's looking at the media and sCiEnTiFiC cOmMuNiTy's heatwave hysterics and adding much-needed, and much-lacking, perspective to the discussion.
Without climate change, July's summer heat in the U.S. Southwest would have been "virtually impossible."
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) July 25, 2023
I guess that's true if you memory hole 1925, 1930s, 1950s, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2012, 2020, etc. and the rest of the almanac. https://t.co/SSQz6Md0V8 pic.twitter.com/pWMfpw4gf0
The climate researchers did not examine the effects of El Niño but they are sure it doesn't matter.
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) July 25, 2023
Also, the research was not peer reviewed because it needed to be publicized so quickly. pic.twitter.com/t9S1PzO0iD
Sounds about right. Stoke the fires of panic now, ask questions later.
They assume that we aren't paying attention. Jeez
— Things will get better in the new building (@thelastnamehere) July 25, 2023
Well, we are. We've been around long enough to know that it's been really, really hot before, and long enough to have learned that it got really, really hot before any of us who are around right now were ever here.
NY Times July 17: "Why We Should Politicize the Weather"
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) July 25, 2023
Hillary Clinton July 25: Blame Republicans for the weather. pic.twitter.com/qiCzKSdjH9
Oh God. Don't even get me started on that stupid-ass Hillary tweet. So dumb. How that woman made it as far in her life as she did, I'll never understand. She's just so painfully uncreative.
Climate change caused the heat waves in the U.S. and Europe.
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) July 25, 2023
"Virtually impossible"
Are you buying this? How do you know this research isn't "specifically tailored" to achieve a predetermined conclusion?
Is the uncritical media coverage gaslighting? pic.twitter.com/hYCvZhP02W
We're not buying it. And we have no reason to believe that the research isn't "specifically tailored" to achieve a predetermined conclusion.
So, treat it like propaganda and lies as opposed to sound science, then.
In other words, we can't trust the authors of this study to accurately represent what's going on, rendering the study effectively worthless when it comes to serious, logical attempts to understand climate change.
Maue also shared this thread from professor and political scientist Roger A. Pielke Jr. (whose father, Roger A. Pielke Sr., is a meteorologist interested in climate modeling):
What the media won't tell you about . . . U.S. heat waves
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) July 25, 2023
Let's take a look at what the IPCC and official data really sayhttps://t.co/5ArB5GJdML pic.twitter.com/T3m3L5NqBn
Neither the IPCC nor the US National Climate Assessment have high confidence in detection or attribution of trends in heat waves is the US
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) July 25, 2023
So either the IPCC is wrong or the media/activist scientists are wrong. Pick one.https://t.co/5ArB5GJdML pic.twitter.com/JHfW7zQOjg
The latest from World Weather Attribution on recent heat waves says that they would have been impossible without climate change
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) July 25, 2023
Maybe so
But their methods are bespoke, impenetrable & data unavailable
This is not science
They do offer veiled support for Just Stop Oil
Not subtle pic.twitter.com/3GmzcaRjqH
The gap in IPCC vs media/activists has never been larger
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) July 25, 2023
If the IPCC is promoting misinformation and bad science on weather and climate extremes, it would be important to understand how they got things so wrong
Lower 48
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) July 25, 2023
Area-averaged maximum temperatures for each year
Spot 2023
via @RyanMaue pic.twitter.com/8cdQGYYGqE
Also via @RyanMaue
— The Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) July 25, 2023
Arizona and Texas
Area-averaged maximum temperatures
Spot the "impossible" 2023 curve
Climate change is real & important, Yes
Also a useful device for trying to trick the gullible
Does no one actually look at data? pic.twitter.com/rICZWYcm0G
If the kinds of "researchers" being cited by the MSM in fearmongering articles about climate change have it their way, no one will actually look at the data. The best way to keep us feeling the heat is to keep us in the dark.
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