Shark Attacks and Climate Change – Do You Stand Out for That?
James D. Agresti
Contrary to NBC Nightly News, there is no scientific basis to confirm that climate change is causing shark attacks.
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In an episode of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt in July 2022, Kerry Sanders reported on “concerns” that “climate change means warmer waters, bringing sharks closer to shore.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/17-year-old-attacked-by-shark- After-sharks-were-spotted-near-the-shore-days-before/ar- AAZ5V9l
A 2019 paper in the journal PLoS One measured shark attacks per million people in the countries with the most shark attacks and found that “the majority of countries do not tend to either no significant change” since 1960. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211049
Regarding some countries with more shark attacks, a 2011 article in the journal Marine and Freshwater Research found the increase in Australia was due to people spending more time in the ocean and “not There is evidence that an increasing number of sharks will influence an increase in attacks in Australian waters. ” https://www.publish.csiro.au/mf/Fulltext/MF10181
In addition to shark attacks, journalists, activists, politicians and educators have fabricated or exaggerated threats from climate change with issues such as:
• the extinction of animals: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions_extinctions
• Deforest: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions_forests
• flood: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-nation-of-kiribati-is-growing-not-sinking
• agricultural decline: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions-famine
• diseases caused by insects: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/ddt-ban-not-global-warming-outbreak-disease-carrying-insects
• amount of rain: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/has-global-warming-made-rainstorms-more-intense
• sea ice: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/has-global-warming-turned-the-north-pole-into-a-lake
Climatologist Stephen Schneider is a founding member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Henry-Schneider
In 1989, Schneider told Discover magazine that to “reduce the risk of potentially catastrophic climate change,” “we have to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination.” . Of course, that requires getting a multitude of media coverage. So we have to come up with scary scenarios, make statements that are oversimplified, dramatic, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.” He also says, “Each of us has to decide what is the right balance between efficiency and honesty. I hope that means both.” https://www.justfacts.com/document/global_warming_stephen_schneider_discover_magazine_october_1989.pdf
NBC News footage was reproduced under the “fair use” clause of US copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “commentary” (17 USC §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
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