As Hurricane Ian hit Florida, Michael Mann of the infamous “hockey stick” global warming graph, and Susan Joy Hassol, publisher of Climate Communication’s “Quick Facts,” which are devoted to explaining extreme weather events as anthropogenic catastrophes, rushed an op-ed piece into print. Their opinion piece, published in The Guardian and predictably entitled, “Hurricane Ian Is No Anomaly,” blamed global warming. Mann and Hassol editorialized:
Climate change once seemed a distant threat. No more. We now know its face, and all too well. We see it in every hurricane, torrential rainstorm, flood, heatwave, wildfire, and drought. It’s even detectable in our daily weather. Climate disruption has changed the background conditions in which all weather occurs: the oceans and air are warmer, there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere and sea levels are higher. Hurricane Ian is the latest example.
Mann and Hassol argued that “the storms of the past five
years—Harvey, Maria, Florence, Michael, Ida, and Ian—aren’t natural
disasters as much as human-made disasters whose amplified ferocity is
fueled by the continued burning of fossil fuels and the increase in
heat-trapping carbon pollution, a planet-warming ‘greenhouse gas.’”..........To Read More...
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