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Media Outlet Falsely Claims Climate Change Is Worsening Kansas and Missouri Weather
« on: December 29, 2023, 07:22:30 am »
WRITTEN BY H. STERLING BURNETT ON DEC 28, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

Media Outlet Falsely Claims Climate Change Is Worsening Kansas and Missouri Weather

The Kansas City Star ran an opinion piece claiming climate change is already making weather more extreme in Kansas and Missouri. This is false.

There is no data supporting the claim that either flooding or drought, two specific extreme weather events cited in the story are worse now than they have been historically. [emphasis, links added]

Almost all the records for such events in both states were set nearly a century or more ago when global average temperatures were cooler.

Joel Mathis, the writer of the Kansas City Star story, “We’re watching the climate change in Kansas and Missouri. Why don’t more of us care?” opines:

https://climatechangedispatch.com/media-outlet-falsely-claims-climate-change-is-worsening-kansas-and-missouri-weather/
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Re: Media Outlet Falsely Claims Climate Change Is Worsening Kansas and Missouri Weather
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2023, 07:24:06 am »
In other words, global warming is being "unequitable" by targeting those two states.  It just shows global warming doesn't embrace wokeness yet. *****rollingeyes*****
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