Misleading claims downplay climate change’s effect on hurricanes
Associated PressCLAIM: Climate change isn’t real because hurricanes in Florida and across the U.S. haven’t increased in frequency, intensity or landfall in more than a century. THE FACTS: Following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian in southwest Florida last week, some social media users are citing U.S. data that shows hurricanes haven’t become more frequent or intense to misleadingly assert that climate change is not impacting storm behavior. Tom Knutson, a senior scientist at NOAA who studies climate change and hurricanes and authored the agency’s web page on the matter, stressed that hurricane data isn’t the most conclusive proof of climate change, either. Gabriel Vecchi, a Princeton professor of geosciences who studies hurricanes, agreed, saying it was a “non-sequitur” to conclude climate change isn’t real simply because hurricanes aren’t making landfall in the U.S. more frequently.
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