NPR Wrongly Blaming Climate Change for Suffering Caused by Civil War, Corruption and the Weather – Are You OK With That?
Via Linnea Lueken
National public radio station (NPR) recently published a mostly pictorial article, titled “Meet 5 women documenting the effects of climate change around the world,“Includes photos taken by women that are said to “highlight climate change”. In fact, what these women cover up in these dramatic photographs is the impact of civil strife, government corruption, and natural weather phenomena, on communities, not on communities. human impact caused by climate change.
The article argues that extreme weather is worsening globally, impacting different communities in different tragic ways. Even the International Committee on Climate Change disagrees with this basic view, and comprehensive analysis in IPCC data on extreme weather by Dr. Ralph Alexander of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, concluding that “Careful examination of the actual data shows that if there are any trends in extreme weather extreme, then it will decrease, not upward”.
The data shows that the number of climate-related deaths is decreasing worldwide in recent decades compared to the past, shown in the image below.
One of the highlighted areas, Somalia, is described in the NPR section as “one of the least contributors to global carbon dioxide emissions, yet its environment is among those affected.” most severe, in irreversible ways”.
Somalia suffers from severe flooding during their monsoon season, known as “Gu rain. ” These floods are essential to agriculture in the region, as it is mostly arid. As in California, fluctuations between drought and monsoon have historically been a frequent part of Somalia’s climate, possibly due to a system of oscillations in the Indian Ocean known as the Indian Ocean. Indian Ocean Dipole similar to El Niño in the Pacific. As population centers in Somalia develop into low-lying areas, formerly used for monsoon-dependent agriculture, they are more susceptible to flooding due to the periodic, seasonal Gu rains.
Somalia is affected not so much by climate change but by violence and government corruption, resulting in destruction or delay of critical infrastructure and mismanagement of aid resources. Civil war has been raging in Somalia since 1991. This has been mentioned by NPR in the past this paragraphdepicts the once beautiful city of Mogadishu in chaos and ruin.
The United Nations says that places like South Sudan also suffer from mainly violent man-made famines and wars in the region.
East Africa has recently suffered from swarms of locusts that, as shown in the NPR photos, hatch in uninhabited areas. As described in this report, due to poor coordination between countries and the green agenda due to lack of pesticides, locusts swarm and eat unprotected crops before they can be sprayed and killed. Locusts are not unprecedented in Africa, and certainly not due to climate change. In fact, their hatching rates may be tied to the Indian Ocean Dipole event similar to a driving force for the Gu rains in Somalia.
The NPR section also shows that the West African coasts are experiencing coastal erosion and flooding, which they say is caused by rapidly rising sea levels. As covered in Climate realism thisand in this Heartland Institute analysis thisIt is clear that coastlines grow and contract as a result of natural forces such as tectonics or storms, and also by human development that impact the structural integrity of coastlines. Does not require anthropogenic warming.
Areas with large river deltas are likely to be more susceptible to land subsidence and sea level rise than other areas, such as this research such as Ghana’s Volta River Delta. Subsidence and massive soil erosion begin to occur in Ghana after the big dams were built upstream reduces the flow of alluvium into the delta.
The NPR article also implied Hurricane Maria was a climate change trigger. Hurricanes are purely natural events and none of them can be attributed to climate change. What the data shows, however, is that storms do not increase in number or severity as the planet warms modestly, as discussed in Climate realism posts this, thisand this.
Photographing people in distress after extreme weather events, then assuming they are suffering from anthropogenic climate change is not the best information and even cruel exploitation. . The impact of disasters globally can be reduced in developing countries as in developed countries through innovation, human adaptation and economic growth. The harms caused by war and government corruption have nothing to do with climate change and will not be addressed by cutting carbon dioxide emissions. Turning the focus away from the real causes of human struggles in at-risk areas of the world that serve no one other than journalists in pursuit of accolades from the media like-minded mainstream media pursuing the progressive political goal of expanding government control to combat supposed climate change.
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Linnea Lueken is a Research Fellow of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy. As a Heartland Institute intern in 2018, she co-authored the Heartland Institute Policy Brief “Drawling Four Persistent Myths of Hydraulic Fracture.”
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