{"id":83437,"date":"2017-09-09T08:41:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T12:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=83437"},"modified":"2017-09-09T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T12:47:08","slug":"msm-headlines-blare-climate-change-fake-news-after-harvey-and-before-irma-geoengineered-superstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=83437","title":{"rendered":"MSM Headlines Blare ‘Climate Change’ After HARVEY And IRMA Geoengineered Superstorms (See fake news story below)"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRST HURRICANE HARVEY, NOW IRMA: IS CLIMATE CHANGE TO BLAME FOR DESTRUCTIVE STORMS?<\/h1>\n

BY MEGHAN BARTELS
\nNewsweek<\/p>\n

Despite what\u00a0President Trump and his appointees say<\/a>, the scientific evidence keeps pouring in that\u00a0climate change is real<\/a>, is\u00a0really caused by humans<\/a>, and\u00a0will cause real impacts<\/a>\u00a0on our lives. There’s even\u00a0evidence suggesting<\/a>\u00a0that many of the tiny proportion of\u00a0studies that do\u00a0undermine\u00a0climate change research are deeply flawed.<\/p>\n

And now, in less than two weeks, we’ve seen first Hurricane Harvey’s record-breaking rainfall and now Hurricane Irma’s fast progression to the\u00a0most severe storm designation, Category 5<\/a>. We know climate change means more weather, so why aren’t these huge storms convincing skeptics that climate change is real?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to draw a line from climate change to an individual storm. Climate scientists and meteorologists both deal in probabilities, and it’s much different to say that large storms will become more likely than to say that one particular storm developed the way it did because of climate change.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

A satellite image of Hurricane Irma as a Category 5 storm on September 5.
NASA\/NOAA GOES PROJECT<\/p><\/div>\n

Scientists always struggle to talk about particularly severe natural disasters because they are by definition rare\u2014and the smaller the data set, the more likely it is that what you think is a real signal is actually just a fluke.<\/p>\n

So the way\u00a0scientists, like Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University in this Facebook post,\u00a0typically tackle<\/a>\u00a0the connection between climate change and hurricanes is to say that climate change doesn’t cause individual storms, but it can make them stronger than they would have been otherwise.<\/p>\n