{"id":396971,"date":"2025-08-22T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=396971"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:53:28","slug":"nbc-news-claim-of-climate-driven-rapid-hurricane-intensification-is-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=396971","title":{"rendered":"NBC News\u2019 Claim of Climate Driven Rapid Hurricane Intensification is False"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent NBC News article, \u201cClimate change is increasing the risk of rapidly intensifying storms. Hurricane Erin is the latest example<\/a>,\u201d and a similar story published by CNN<\/a>, are yet additional instances of media hyperbole overshadowing scientific nuance. The claim that climate change is driving<\/em> the increasingly frequent rapid intensification of hurricanes is unproven and probably flat wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC\u2019s story opens dramatically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hurricane Erin strengthened back into a Category 4 behemoth over the weekend, the latest shift in what has been a remarkably fast-changing storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hurricane\u2019s behavior in recent days makes it one of the fastest-strengthening Atlantic hurricanes on record, and yet another indication that climate change is increasing the risk of rapidly intensifying storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This framing relies not on a robust dataset or a careful review of historical hurricane behavior, but on a shallow reading of recent high-profile storms and a generous dose of conjecture. The article immediately jumps to the assertion that a single hurricane\u2014Erin<\/a>\u2014is somehow emblematic of a global, climate-driven trend.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Image: Hurricane Erin was photographed by NOAA\u2019s GOES-19 Satellite, utilizing the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument, during the afternoon hours of August 16, 2025, as it was heading west to the north of the Leeward Islands.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The problem? We simply don\u2019t have the quality or length of observational data required to make such sweeping conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no single, universal definition<\/a> of \u201crapid intensification.\u201d Discussions of it are of very recent vintage. When many speak of rapid \u201cintensification\u201d (RI) they define it as<\/a> an increase in sustained wind speeds of at least 35 mph in 24 hours. This a relatively new entrant in the hurricane lexicon as seen in the figure below from Google nGram tracker<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Before satellite monitoring in the late 1970s, we had only the vaguest idea about the inner workings of tropical cyclones, especially those that stayed at sea. Prior to that, storm intensification was gauged largely by ship reports, land-based observations, and post-storm forensics. How many storms rapidly intensified in the pre-satellite era? The honest answer is: we\u2019ll never know because the data isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Climate at a Glance<\/a> points out, \u201cReliable satellite data on global hurricanes only goes back to about 1980.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any attempt to compare the frequency or intensity of RI events today to pre-satellite decades is, at best, based on suppositions, assumptions, and guesses about past hurricanes\u2019 wind speeds and development. Pure speculation. Only modern storm tracking allows us to monitor, record\u2014and report\u2014every wiggle and wobble in storm strength that would have gone unrecorded in previous generations. Comparing today\u2019s RI frequency to 1970, 1960, or earlier is like comparing high-resolution digital photos to blurry Polaroids or even woodcut etchings and then to claim the subject has suddenly grown new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News references a 2023 study that claims, \u201ctropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean were around 29% more likely to undergo rapid intensification from 2001 to 2020, compared to 1971 to 1990.\u201d This sounds seems concerning, until you realize the gaping data-quality chasm between those eras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hurricane tracking and wind speed and pressure monitoring before the development and deployment of hurricane aircraft was spotty at best. It was largely made up of guess work or readings from the odd ship that crossed paths with a storm, unless or until a storm made landfall, and particularly, landfall at locations with what was then the state-of-the-art weather data devices. Hurricane aircraft were a giant leap forward, but even then, the awareness of hurricanes could be spotty with many small storms, developing and dying distant from land, being unrecorded or reported. Reaching storms far from land was limited and a drain on resources, and the equipment, rudimentary compared to modern equipment. Satellites revolutionized hurricane tracking in the 1980s. As a result, any statistical analysis that straddles the pre- and post-satellite eras is skating on extremely thin ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom my read of the discussion among scientists, the IPCC report, and the DOE report, my opinion is that technological advancement in recent decades-particularly as it pertains to the capabilities of the Hurricane Hunters, makes it difficult to say definitive things about trends in rapid intensification . . . [t]his is especially so because these things happen out at sea.,\u201d writes Jessica Wienkle, Ph.D., in an analysis of rapid intensification, subtitled, \u201cOur technologies have come a long way!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne cannot discredit the first half of the hurricane record for data quality issues and then proclaim definitive things about the latter half of the record because of its high data quality,\u201d Wienkle continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Difficulties in comparing past with present hurricane records and trends aside, NBC fails to mention is that NOAA\u2019s own data<\/a> shows no significant upward trend in either the frequency or intensity of all major Atlantic hurricanes since reliable satellite measurements began. Also when global hurricane data is examined, there is even less evidence for a trend. The IPCC\u2019s Sixth Assessment Report<\/a> (AR6) states plainly: \u201cThere is low confidence in most reported long-term (multi-decadal to centennial) trends in TC [tropical cyclone] frequency- or intensity-based metrics due to changes in observational capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about the record books? Even a cursory glance at NOAA\u2019s historical hurricane database<\/a> shows that the strongest, most rapidly intensifying hurricanes are not a modern phenomenon. Take Hurricane Wilma (2005), which intensified by 100 mph in 30 hours, or Hurricane Camille (1969), which made landfall as a Category 5 long before the climate panic set in. When you factor in measurement improvements and detection bias, the supposed \u201ctrend\u201d toward more rapid intensification evaporates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News leans heavily on the notion that warmer sea surface temperatures are the \u201ckey ingredient\u201d for rapid intensification. But hurricanes are products of many factors\u2014wind shear, atmospheric moisture, ocean heat content, and even dust from the Sahara Desert<\/a>. Some years, all the ingredients line up. Other years, despite warm water, storms simply fail to materialize or intensify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historical hurricane records are rife with examples of natural variability overwhelming any hypothetical climate \u201csignal.\u201d As recently as 2013<\/a>, forecasters predicted a blockbuster season due to high sea surface temperatures, but reality delivered a below<\/a> average hurricane season. If warm water were the sole driver, the hurricane trend would be a simple upward slope. Instead, the record is erratic, with decades of fewer landfalls and weak seasons mixed among the headline storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NBC article finally admits, in an aside: \u201cthe process of rapid intensification remains difficult to forecast\u2026 understanding how it will happen for specific storms\u2014and when\u2014will require more research.\u201d You don\u2019t say!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC\u2019s climate reporting reminds me of early Saturday Night Live character, Emily Litella:<\/a> Famous for building up a huge story and working herself up into a tizzy based on a simple misunderstanding of what someone had said in an editorial or story. Once an anchor explained that Litella had misheard or misunderstood the subject she was responding to, she would famously say, \u201cOh, that\u2019s very different. Never Mind!\u201d NBC misunderstands what the conclusions one can draw about hurricanes from an all-things-considered weighing of the limited available evidence, blows up an alarming story about worsening rapid intensification and then, in a \u201cnever mind,\u201d moment, admits the process is a mystery and \u201crequires more research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, what NBC News is serving up isn\u2019t journalism\u2014it\u2019s a dish best described as \u201cclimate panic stew.\u201d Take a dash of selective data, toss in a pinch of correlation without causation, and garnish with dramatic satellite imagery and you\u2019ve got a complete ready to consume media dish. But what you won\u2019t find in their recipe is skepticism, context, or any recognition of the limitations in hurricane observation and attribution science. That\u2019s not science reporting; that\u2019s tall tale spinning for political purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until NBC News is interested in reporting real science, with all its uncertainties and caveats, their climate reporting will remain as stormy as the hurricanes they claim to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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