Sorry, Nat Geo, Data Falsifies Your Climate Change Crisis Claims
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H. Sterling Burnett -
October 29, 2021 0
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A pictorial essay in National Geographic (Nat Geo) claims to show human climate change causing various natural disasters. It is often said “a picture is worth a thousand words.” If true, in this instance, Nat Geo’s pictures are telling thousands of half-truths. None of the weather events Nat Geo’s photographs document are unusual historically, and Nat Geo’s claims that such events are worsening due to climate change are falsified by hard data.
As the world has come to expect from National Geographic, the photographs in its pictorial essay, titled “Photos show a climate change crises unfolding—and hope for the future,” are powerful, in and in many instances stunning. However, they do not portray what Nat Geo claims they show. They don’t show climate change induced crisis. Rather they show entirely natural extreme weather events and their often tragic aftermaths.
“As the UN’s global climate change conference—COP26—approaches, ever-more-extreme weather has shown us climate change is here,” writes Nat Geo.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) disagrees. As discussed by Roger Pielke, Jr., Ph.D., the IPCC’s recent 6th Assessment Report finds, contrary to Nat Geo’s claims, that flooding, tropical cyclones, tornados, most types of drought, and myriad other types of extreme weather have not increased as a result of climate change.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/10/sorry-nat-geo-data-falsifies-your-climate-change-crisis-claims/
