WaPo’s Uses ‘Political’ Research To Link ‘Climate Change’ to Natural Disasters — It’s Also Bankrolled with $10 million by WaPo Owner Jeff Bezos
By Marc Morano
October 21, 2024
12:53 pm
WaPo’s Favorite Environmental Group Uses ‘Political’ Research To Link Climate Change to Natural Disasters. It’s Also Bankrolled by WaPo Owner Jeff Bezos.
By Chuck Ross and Thomas Catenacci
World Weather Attribution was founded in 2014 to produce research linking extreme weather events to climate change. That research is then funneled to mainstream media outlets, giving them what the group calls the “larger global warming context” as they cover natural disasters.
The group found a friend in Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who in 2022 announced a $10 million grant to WWA and two other organizations to “scale effective communication on the links between climate change and extreme weather.” The Bezos Earth Fund said the money would provide the WWA an outlet to “reach the most important audience segments via trusted messengers.”
One such messenger is Bezos’s newspaper, the Washington Post, which has cited WWA research in more than 70 stories over the past three years, a Washington Free Beacon review found. It does so uncritically, publishing the group’s non-peer-reviewed findings to suggest that climate change is to blame for recent natural disasters, including Hurricane Milton. Nonpartisan experts in the field, however, are not so sure of WWA’s methods, portraying the group’s flashy studies as rushed, partisan, and “incomplete.”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/10/21/wapos-uses-political-research-to-link-climate-change-to-natural-disasters-its-also-bankrolled-with-10-million-by-wapo-owner-jeff-bezos/
