{"id":325139,"date":"2024-05-01T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325139"},"modified":"2024-05-01T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:58:18","slug":"mainstream-media-falls-for-weather-attribution-con-again-over-dubais-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325139","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Media Falls for Weather Attribution Con Again Over Dubai\u2019s Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"325140\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=325140\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0dubai-1351569_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0dubai-1351569_1280\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0dubai-1351569_1280.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0dubai-1351569_1280.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0dubai-1351569_1280.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0dubai-1351569_1280.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0dubai-1351569_1280.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0dubai-1351569_1280.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0dubai-1351569_1280.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/04\/mainstream-media-falls-for-weather-attribution-con-again-over-dubais-flooding\/\">ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/author\/llueken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few media outlets, including CNN and BBC, have run recent articles talking about flooding in Dubai, claiming that climate change made the storms worse. This is false. There is no evidence that climate change made the rain more extreme, instead, evidence actually indicates that El Ni\u00f1o and even cloud seeding may have contributed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the BBC\u2019s article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-68897443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deadly Dubai floods made worse by climate change<\/a>,\u201d and the one posted by CNN, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/25\/climate\/dubai-floods-climate-weather-analysis-int\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scientists find the fingerprints of climate change on Dubai\u2019s deadly floods<\/a>,\u201d reference a study done by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group, which claimed that climate change made the rain events 10 to 40 percent more intense than if global warming was not occurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN\u2019s writer says global warming is the likely driver of heavy rainfall in Dubai \u201cbecause the atmosphere in a 1.2-degree warmer world can now hold 8.4% more moisture, which is making extreme rain events more intense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These claims are nonsense, and worse, non-scientific, for the simple reason that not only does data not show that heavy rainfall is becoming more intense or common, but the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) doesn\u2019t even claim that any sign whatsoever will even begin to emerge, according to their own projections, until well into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As discussed by meteorologist Anthony Watts in a previous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/04\/no-axios-the-dubai-rain-bomb-has-no-ties-to-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Climate Realism<\/em>\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0on the extreme rain in Dubai, the latest claims from the IPCC\u2019s 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Assessment Report show that \u201cheavy precipitation and pluvial flooding\u201d has not yet emerged in the current \u201chistorical period.\u201d They have found no climate signal related to heavy rain. (See figure below)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"659\" data-attachment-id=\"325142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=325142\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0unipcc-cid.png?fit=624%2C659&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"624,659\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0unipcc-cid\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0unipcc-cid.png?fit=624%2C659&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0unipcc-cid.png?resize=624%2C659&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0unipcc-cid.png?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0unipcc-cid.png?resize=284%2C300&amp;ssl=1 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 1 \u2013 Table 12.12 | on Page 90 \u2013 Chapter 12 of the UN IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Emergence of Climate Impact Drivers (CIDs)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even if there was a climate signal in the broader data, the modelling done by WWA does not reflect real-world conditions and actually proves nothing at all. Again, several previous posts at&nbsp;<em>Climate Realism<\/em>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2022\/09\/pakistans-floods-and-the-climate-attribution-con\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2022\/06\/the-media-is-misleading-on-attribution-and-heat-waves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2023\/06\/wrong-cnn-attribution-groups-prove-nothing-about-extreme-weather-and-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, as samples) have discussed in detail the issues with weather attribution \u201cscience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best description of how these attribution studies work was given by statistician Dr. William Briggs in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegwpf.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Briggs-IPCC-Attribution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paper<\/a>&nbsp;compiled by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Dr. Briggs wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All attribution studies work around the same basic theme. . . . A model of the climate as it does not exist, but which is claimed to represent what the climate would look like had mankind not \u2018interfered\u2019 with it, is run many times. The outputs from these runs is examined for some \u2018bad\u2019 or \u2018extreme\u2019 event, such as higher temperatures or increased numbers of hurricanes making landfall, or rainfall exceeding some amount. The frequency with which these bad events occur in the model is noted. Next, a model of the climate as it is said to now exist is run many times. This model represents global warming. The frequencies from the same bad events in the model are again noted. The frequencies between the models are then compared. If the model of the current climate has a greater frequency of the bad event than the imaginary (called \u2018counterfactual\u2019) climate, the event is said to be caused by global warming, in whole or in part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fundamentally, attribution science cannot be proof of human influences on the weather via climate change, because it begins with the assumption that any given weather event&nbsp;<em>is<\/em>&nbsp;being influenced by climate change. In other words, the model is designed with the outcome in mind, making it impossible for them to \u201cdiscover\u201d anything to the contrary. In WWA\u2019s rapidly produced attribution studies the question is never whether climate change contributed to a particular extreme weather event, but rather only, how much additional ferocity did it cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WWA models cannot prove that the heavy rain in Dubai, and resultant flooding, was caused by climate change at all, much less attribute a particular percentage of the rain to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the BBC and CNN grudgingly acknowledge but play down the role El Ni\u00f1o had in the storms and flooding, despite the fact that it is a much more likely to be a contributing factor for the heavy rainfall than long-term climate change. El Ni\u00f1o has a significant influence on weather patterns around the world, including the United Arab Emirates. A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/306009472_The_Impact_of_El_Nino_and_La_Nina_on_the_United_Arab_Emirates_UAE_Rainfall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2016 study<\/a>&nbsp;found that El Ni\u00f1o has been associated with extreme rainfall in UAE during multiple years, going back to 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although recent reports have seen the government backpedaling on this claim, when the flood stories first broke, a UAE National Center of Meteorology scientist admitted to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding-1.2059771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>&nbsp;that cloud seeding experiments were being run in the days leading up to the storms. This may also have played a role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is remarkable that journalists continue to fall for the attribution modelling con, assuming they are seeking the truth when it comes to the impact of the modest warming of the past century. However, if these journalists are instead&nbsp;<em>intending<\/em>&nbsp;to act as just a mouthpiece for weather attribution propaganda in furtherance of the climate crisis narrative, then they are guilty of knowingly deceiving their audiences who may lack the background knowledge allowing them to recognize that attribution modelling, as currently practiced, is unscientific. In either case, the BBC and CNN are misleading their readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few media outlets, including CNN and BBC, have run recent articles talking about flooding in Dubai, claiming that climate change made the storms worse. This is false. There is no evidence that climate change made the rain more extreme, instead, evidence actually indicates that El Ni\u00f1o and even cloud seeding may have contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":325140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691828430,691820582,691828431],"class_list":{"0":"post-325139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-dubais-flooding","10":"tag-global-warming-policy-foundation","11":"tag-ipccs-6th-assessment-report","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0dubai-1351569_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1mAb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":416259,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=416259","url_meta":{"origin":325139,"position":0},"title":"From Storm to Scare Story: How the Guardian Wrongly Claimed Climate Change Caused a \u2018Climate Breakdown\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/12\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Guardian\u2019s recent article, \u201c\u2018My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. 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This is mostly false.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0boogeyman-journalist-127048059_m-scaled-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0boogeyman-journalist-127048059_m-scaled-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0boogeyman-journalist-127048059_m-scaled-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0boogeyman-journalist-127048059_m-scaled-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0boogeyman-journalist-127048059_m-scaled-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":321131,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=321131","url_meta":{"origin":325139,"position":2},"title":"No, AXIOS, the Dubai \u201cRain Bomb\u201d Has No Ties to Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"23\/04\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"An article written by Andrew Freedman, titled \u201cDubai\u2019s record-shattering \u201crain bomb\u201d has clear climate change ties,\u201d published April 17th, in the online news website AXIOS makes the claim that record rainfall received in one day in the city of Dubai United Arab Emirates (UAE), has a clear connection to climate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"AXIOS\"","block_context":{"text":"AXIOS","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=axios"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-363.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-363.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-363.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-363.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-363.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":417129,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417129","url_meta":{"origin":325139,"position":3},"title":"Media Outlets Shill for Climate Risk Firm, Despite No Evidence Showing Climate Change Threatens Homes","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/12\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Multiple media outlets, including\u00a0CNN,\u00a0The New York Times (NYT),\u00a0Euro News, and\u00a0The New Republic, recently posted articles complaining that the real estate website Zillow was removing \u201cclimate risk scores\u201d from their home listing info, claiming that it puts home buyers at risk. 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