Scientists and media are increasingly ‘reprimanded’ and ‘pressured’ to blame extreme weather on humans – Worried about that?
Via Kenneth Richard above 27. January 2022
Despite the potential for “misleading” and “speculation,” achieving the goal of promoting “action” on climate change means that elements of uncertainty and warning must be eliminated across the board. newspapers. The media is pressured by “green groups” to opportunistically claim all extreme weather events – including the subsequent damage – are caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.
In recent decades there has been a solidified of extreme weather events (precipitation).
Image source: Koutsoyiannis, 2020
The number of deaths and property damage due to extreme weather events has also been on a downward trend in recent decades (Broccard, year 2021).
Image source: Broccard, year 2021
The model cannot simulate extreme events and mechanically attribute them to human activity (Bellprat and Doblas-Reyes, 2016).
Image source: Bellprat and Doblas-Reyes, 2016
While they acknowledge “climate-focused disaster images can be misleading and problematic”, Lahsen and Ribot (2022) However, it still seems to defend the way journalists and media outlets systematically eliminate uncertainties and doubts about human-induced extreme weather. They even admit that alarmism is train.
Where is the science in this?
“Science leaders strongly hope that identifying climate change’s role in extreme weather events will ‘push more immediate action’ to mitigate climate change.”
“[T]Mr. Media Matters, the progressive research and information center for America, regularly berates American media outlets for not mentioning that climate change is driving conditions that create the ‘new normal’ of protests. frequent crises”
“[L]eading climate media advisers affiliated with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) cites examples from around the world to criticize the media for ‘too often’ failing to capture’ clear opportunity’ to call attention to climate as causation (Hassol et al., 2016). They train experts to initiate communication about such events by clearly identifying climate change as the cause,”[r]instead of starting with warnings, uncertainties and what we can’t say, ‘as scientists usually do’
Image source: Lahsen and Ribot, 2022
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