WRITTEN BY LINNEA LUEKEN ON JAN 29, 2024. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Despite Media Agitprop, New Study Doesn’t Show Climate Change Is Fueling Amazon’s Drought
Several mainstream news sources, including The New York Times (NYT) and BBC, claim that a new study shows that recent severe drought conditions in the Amazon rainforest were “fueled” or driven by climate change.
The stories are false on two fronts.
First, the study in question merely says the drought was made more likely due to climate change, but more pressing, the study does not get into a detailed analysis of the causes of the drought, and real-world data show that severe drought is not becoming more common in the Amazon. [emphasis, links added]
The study is another in a growing number of rapid attribution studies from a group called the World Weather Attribution Initiative (WWA) that finger climate change as the primary driver of extreme weather events.
As with past “studies” produced by WWA, the mainstream media is only too happy to once again promote and even exaggerate what a study claims.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/despite-media-agitprop-new-study-doesnt-show-climate-change-is-fueling-amazons-drought/
