{"id":330437,"date":"2024-05-28T10:12:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T08:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330437"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T08:12:56","slug":"cnns-attempt-to-link-the-singapore-airlines-turbulence-to-climate-change-is-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330437","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Attempt to Link the Singapore Airlines\u2019 Turbulence to Climate Change Is Disgusting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Less than 24 hours after likely air turbulence caused injuries and even a death on a Singapore bound, Singapore Airlines fight, CNN reporter, Jacopo Prisco, was quick to raise the specter of climate change as the cause. There is no real-world connection between long-term climate change and trends in air turbulence or in air injuries. There is no data whatsoever indicating climate change threatens to cause an increase in unstable air currents, and the data that does exist shows that even as the planet has slightly warmed, in-flight injuries from turbulence have declined or remained relatively flat, even as the number of fliers and miles flown have increased dramatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reader might notice the phrase \u201clikely air turbulence\u201d in the paragraph above. That\u2019s because, although from the experience of the aircraft and the testimony of the passengers and flight crew, turbulence was the most likely cause of the deadly mishap, until the flight recorders are checked, and plane examined we can\u2019t know for certain their were no other issues contributing to or causing the jet\u2019s unexpected sharp drop in altitude and erratic flight for a short period thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite its title, most of CNN\u2019s story, \u201cClimate change could be about to make flight turbulence a lot worse<\/a>,\u201d is a straight forward discussion of the various type and degrees of turbulence, how it can affect flights and cause injuries, and how many people experience in-flight turbulence and injuries each year. So far so good, straight reporting in the aftermath of a horrific, ultimately deadly, air incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not content to stick with the facts, however, Prisco then brings in the climate change angle, quoting Paul Williams, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Reading in the UK, who told Prisco that he:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

believes that climate change is modifying turbulence, and started studying the subject in 2013. \u201cWe ran some computer simulations and found that severe turbulence could double or triple in the coming decades,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Williams\u2019 analysis predicts that clear-air turbulence will increase significantly around the globe by the period 2050-2080, in particular along the busiest flight routes, and the strongest type of turbulence will increase the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the flight computer simulations use inputs from climate models to produce their outputs of future conditions. The problem is model forecasts are only as good as the assumptions and data that is input into them. But, as Climate Realism<\/em> has discussed repeatedly, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, for example, climate models are woefully flawed, consistently producing forecasts that don\u2019t match the temperature and other weather and climate conditions that the world is actually experiencing. As a result, Williams\u2019 forecast of worsening turbulence is a case of what is known in the sciences as \u201cGarbage in, Garbage out!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, almost every time a flight encounters serious turbulence, especially if it results in injuries, the mainstream media is quick to claim climate change is making flying more dangerous. Citing real-world data, Climate Realism<\/a><\/em> has debunked this pathetic attempt to tie greenhouse gas emissions to in-flight turbulence several times in the past, including our rebuttal to the BBC<\/a> last year. Repeating the same lie over and over again, even if one thinks it is in a good cause, like preventing a purported climate crisis, does not make it the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facts about trends in turbulence amidst modest warming is that there is no increasing trend. A 2021 report<\/a> by the International Civil Aviation Organization<\/a> (ICAO) plotted accident data related to turbulence, finding no statistically significant increase since 1989, despite a tremendous increase in passengers and miles flown. See Figure 1 below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If turbulence had increased due to climate change as CNN\u2019s story implies, there would be a clear upward trend demonstrated in the graph. Instead, turbulence related aircraft accidents have held steady since about 1995, even as the number of people travelling and the number of airline miles travelled has increased dramatically globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN\u2019s decision to allow Prisco to act like a vulture before the body was cold, promoting false climate alarm, sans evidence, was awful exercise of judgement. Even before the poor 71-years-old man from Britain who died during the Singapore Airlines had been laid to rest, and even as dozens of people injured on the flight remained hospitalized, Prisco made hay of the tragedy to promote a political narrative about dangerous climate change. This is a disgusting indicator of the state of the modern media. This story is just one instance, perhaps explaining why trust in journalists has fallen so dramatically over the years as those tied to the mainstream media have repeatedly parroted claims made by activist, politicians, and special interests, about myriad recent scientific and political controversies and policies, only to have those claims and narratives falsified again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such stories might suggest to any thoughtful observer that the press, with alarming regularity, misrepresents, covers up, and even fabricates stories in pursuit of an agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is no data whatsoever indicating climate change threatens to cause an increase in unstable air currents, and the data that does exist shows that even as the planet has slightly warmed, in-flight injuries from turbulence have declined or remained relatively flat, even as the number of fliers and miles flown have increased dramatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":330442,"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":[691819134,691818056,691819743,691819043,691828840,691828839],"class_list":{"0":"post-330437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-alarmism","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-propaganda","11":"tag-cnn","12":"tag-model-forecasts","13":"tag-singapore-airlines","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0210101120248-4-singapore-airlines.jpg?fit=1480%2C833&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1nXD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":219916,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=219916","url_meta":{"origin":330437,"position":0},"title":"CNN Falsely Claims Airline Turbulence Will Increase due to Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"21\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"As we have noted time and again model output is not data.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1021.png?fit=881%2C544&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1021.png?fit=881%2C544&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1021.png?fit=881%2C544&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1021.png?fit=881%2C544&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":331780,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=331780","url_meta":{"origin":330437,"position":1},"title":"Right, FreePress, the Mainstream Media Should Stop Falsely Blaming Air Turbulence on Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/06\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A May 23rd article by Rupa Subramanya in the FreePress.com (FP) had this bold headline: Stop Making Plane Turbulence About Climate Change. 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