{"id":375975,"date":"2025-04-20T19:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375975"},"modified":"2025-04-20T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T17:14:06","slug":"the-guardian-exaggerated-european-extreme-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375975","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian exaggerated European extreme weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Joe Bastardi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Guardian<\/em> has churned out yet another piece of climate exaggeration, this time claiming that storms, floods, and wildfires in 2024 \u201caffected\u201d over 400,000 people in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/15\/europe-storms-floods-and-wildfires-in-2024-affected-more-than-400000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Do they even grasp how this can be ripped to shreds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s break it down. Europe\u2019s population is roughly 500 million. If 400,000 were \u201caffected,\u201d that leaves 499,600,000 who were not. The \u201caffected\u201d are a mere 0.08% of the population. What does \u201caffected\u201d even mean here? The article doesn\u2019t specify the severity\u2014were these people displaced, inconvenienced, or just vaguely aware of a storm? Compare that to, say, the adverse effects of COVID vaccines. I won\u2019t dive into those stats, but in my book, The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War<\/em> (written in April 2020), I dedicated two chapters to exposing how media outlets like this rely on distortion, deception, and their own delusional narratives to push agendas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ignorance on display is staggering, matched only by the arrogance of assuming no one would notice the absurdity. If 0.08% of a population is \u201caffected,\u201d that\u2019s practically nobody relative to the whole. It\u2019s a minuscule figure, yet they present it as a crisis. The word \u201caffected\u201d is deliberately vague, a classic tactic of manipulation. On April 15, a thunderstorm in State College, Pennsylvania knocked over some trash cans in my neighborhood. By their logic, that \u201caffected\u201d people. Should we start counting every minor inconvenience to inflate these numbers? Sure, some may have faced serious impacts, but how many just dealt with a few hours of flooded roads? To write a piece like this, with Europe\u2019s growing population, and not expect it to be dismantled for its flimsiness, reveals a worldview utterly detached from critical thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, let\u2019s have some fun with their logic. CO2 makes up 0.042% of the atmosphere. What fraction of that 0.042% caused this 0.08% to be \u201caffected\u201d? If we play their game of cherry-picking numbers, multiply 0.042% by 0.08%, and you get 0.0000034%. Apply that to 500 million people, and you\u2019re left with 168 people \u201caffected\u201d by CO2-driven climate events. Why not? It\u2019s no more absurd than writing an article like this without context or using slippery terms like \u201caffected\u201d that could mean anything from a flooded basement to a fallen tree branch. It\u2019s the same nonsense as \u201cclimate anxiety\u201d\u2014a kid\u2019s baseball game gets rained out, someone whispers \u201cclimate change,\u201d and suddenly he\u2019s got an existential crisis. I used to have that kind of anxiety too, worrying storms wouldn\u2019t live up to my forecasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the reality: the global population is four times what it was in 1930, yet weather and climate related deaths are 1\/28th what they were then. That\u2019s the real picture, worth far more than The<\/em> Guardian\u2019s<\/em> thousand words of hyperbole.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Writing like this is as laughable as claiming you\u2019re a better bowler because you knocked down one pin in a 30-pin game. Actually, no\u2014that\u2019s too generous. With numbers this weak, they\u2019re not even hitting the pins. They\u2019re straight in the gutter, which is where this kind of logic belongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian\u00a0has churned out yet another piece of climate exaggeration, this time claiming that storms, floods, and wildfires in 2024 \u201caffected\u201d over 400,000 people in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":375985,"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":[691818102,691819743,691818583,691818514,691818544,691818262,691818913],"class_list":{"0":"post-375975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-crisis","9":"tag-climate-propaganda","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-extreme-weather","12":"tag-flooding","13":"tag-the-guardian","14":"tag-wildfires","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/00Extreme-Weather-Storms-Climate-Change-Concept.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1zO7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":410834,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=410834","url_meta":{"origin":375975,"position":0},"title":"Tell the Truth, The Guardian and NBC, High Weather Disaster Costs Aren\u2019t Due to Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"29\/10\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Multiple mainstream media outlets published stories this week uncritically publicizing the claims of a climate change interest group, Climate Central (CC). 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