Forbes’ False Alarm: NASA Claims on Worsening Weather Debunked by Data
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Forbes posted an article, titled “What You Need To Know About Climate Change In 2025,” which claimed that global warming is causing an increase in severe weather conditions around the world, citing NASA as the source. This is false. Data do not show that severe weather is becoming worse or more common, computer models are just predicting that they may.
After a pretty mild introduction explaining that there is a need for a “new American narrative for talking about climate change,” Forbes makes this set of claims:
“Global warming has consequences for weather. According to NASA, global warming “is impacting extreme weather across the planet. Record-breaking heat waves on land and in the ocean, drenching rains, severe floods, years-long droughts, extreme wildfires, and widespread flooding during hurricanes are all becoming more frequent and more intense.” If global warming continues, these effects will be even more severe, such as rising sea levels which could put many U.S. cities underwater by 2050. The year 2050 is often cited by those who study climate change, trying to anticipate its effects and how to mitigate and adapt to global warming. The general scientific consensus is that in order to avoid the most serious consequences of global warming, the temperature rise should be kept to around 2°C or 3.6°F by 2050.”
Climate change by definition has effects on the weather; climate is a statistical construct based on weather patterns over a certain period of time, usually 30 years, but the NASA declaration that Fobes cites is not supported by data that even NASA themselves collect and make public.
This paragraph mentions six extreme weather-related threats, and sea level rise.
While 2023 and 2024 were hot, largely due to the effect of a natural El Niño in the Pacific, there is quite a bit of uncertainty as to whether or not the number and severity of heatwaves are actually increasing.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/31/forbes-false-alarm-nasa-claims-on-worsening-weather-debunked-by-data/
