{"id":348776,"date":"2024-10-25T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T08:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348776"},"modified":"2024-10-25T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T08:19:56","slug":"no-cbs-climate-change-will-not-put-chicago-at-heightened-risk-for-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348776","title":{"rendered":"No, CBS, Climate Change Will Not Put Chicago at Heightened Risk for Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent article posted by CBS News, Chicago asks the question on nobody\u2019s mind: \u201cWill climate change put the Chicago area at heightened risk for hurricanes?\u201d<\/a> This question and the thinking behind it are ridiculous. Although it is true that the remnants of tropical storms and hurricanes can reach Chicago, and have in the past, there is little reason to think that climate change will make it more likely to occur in the future or more severe if or when it does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS claims that the recent hurricane Helene \u201cbrought tropical flooding to inland regions not typically at risk,\u201d warning that it\u2019s now clear that \u201cclimate disasters can happen anywhere.\u201d Besides the obvious issue of CBS conflating climate (long term average) with weather<\/a> (a short term event), it is also untrue that it\u2019s unusual for hurricanes to bring heavy rain inland. In fact, hurricane<\/a> related flooding has occurred in the Appalachians long before industrialization could be blamed. The flood of 1916<\/a> in Asheville, North Carolina was much worse than this recent one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If that wasn\u2019t silly enough, CBS turns to the unscientific realm of rapid attribution studies to claim that human contributions to climate change \u201cfueled Milton\u2019s rapid intensification, according to Climate Central,\u201d and asks the question \u201c[a]s the impacts of climate change get worse faster, what, if anything, could reach Illinois now or in the future from hurricanes?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This question carries a tiny thread of truth, that is, that the remnants of tropical storms and hurricanes can and do affect regions far away from the coasts, with CBS giving the examples of Hurricane Ike and Tropical Storm Lowell, the latter of which which caused flooding in Chicago that was severe enough to warrant an emergency declaration in 2008. However, this is not new, and the evidence CBS uses to try to frighten readers into believing that hurricanes will soon pose a greater threat up north is mere propaganda and not real data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS cites Climate Central, a climate activism and advocacy group which is often caught spreading fake news and misleading information about climate science in order to push alarmist narratives. For instance, they touted the University of Maine\u2019s faulty climate reanalyzer<\/a> in 2023 as though it represented measured data when it does not. CBS also references rapid attribution analyses from groups like World Weather Attribution. Climate Realism<\/em> has covered their false \u201cscience\u201d assertions many times<\/a>, where they use counterfactual computer models to claim that any given storm is the result of human-caused climate change. There will never be a weather event that World Weather Attribution can\u2019t tie to climate change, because they begin with the assumption that climate change juices every weather event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason mainstream media organizations like CBS rely on attribution study groups instead of real data, is because the available data do not<\/em> show that hurricanes are getting more intense, wetter, or more frequent. Although Climate Realism<\/em> has covered hurricanes many times this season (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, just in the last 2 weeks), it is worth going over the facts again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major hurricanes, according to global hurricane frequency data, are not getting more common, nor are less powerful hurricanes. (See figure below)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chart and data collection by Ryan N. Maue, \u201cGlobal Tropical Cyclone Activity,\u201d Climate Atlas, accessed October 10, 2024, https:\/\/climatlas.com\/tropical\/global_major_freq.png<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In regards to strength, there is no demonstrable increasing trend in global accumulated cyclone energy. If that\u2019s not enough, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s Sixth Assessment Report, in Chapter 12, Table 12.12, identifies no connection between tropical cyclones and climate change. Not in the present, or the future, even under extreme emissions scenarios. (See figure below)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1: White spaces beside a category indicate evidence of a climate signal is lacking, other colors vary by strength. Bright orange is high confidence of decrease, pale orange is medium confidence of decrease, blue is medium confidence of increase, darker blue is high confidence of increase.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Facts are inconvenient for climate hucksters like CBS, which end up looking like fools trying to ignore reality in order to frighten readers in places like Chicago. Yes, the remnants of a hurricane or tropical storm can make it up to Chicago, but no, there is no indication that such occurrences are common or are set to become a frequent problem in the future. CBS has to know this, otherwise they would not rely so heavily on the nebulous claims of attribution artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A recent article posted by CBS News, Chicago asks the question on nobody\u2019s mind: \u201cWill climate change put the Chicago area at heightened risk for hurricanes?\u201d This question and the thinking behind it are ridiculous. Although it is true that the remnants of tropical storms and hurricanes can reach Chicago, and have in the past, there is little reason to think that climate change will make it more likely to occur in the future or more severe if or when it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":348777,"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":[691820739,691819134,691818056,691818104,691831095],"class_list":{"0":"post-348776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-cbs-news","9":"tag-climate-alarmism","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-hurricanes","12":"tag-tropical-flooding","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/00Screenshot-2024-10-25-101520.png?fit=1405%2C712&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1sJq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":259866,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259866","url_meta":{"origin":348776,"position":0},"title":"Sorry, CBS News Philly, Landfalling Hurricanes Are Not Increasing","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"31\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A CBS News Philidelphia\u00a0segment\u00a0on hurricanes claims that climate change will cause increase in hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. 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