Who Could Not See This One Coming! Mainstream Media Hijack Hurricane Dorian for Global Warming Alarm

Form Town Hall.Com

As I write at 11 a.m. Eastern Time Monday, Hurricane Dorian, with sustained winds of 155 mph—barely below Category 5—is pounding the Bahamas and moving very slowly westward, forecast to turn north later today. After crawling slowly up the Florida and Georgia coasts Tuesday through Wednesday, Dorian is forecast to turn northeast Thursday morning and continue its crawl along the coasts of South and North Carolina. By Friday morning the eye could be east of North Carolina’s outer banks, and there is some chance that the far western edge of Dorian’s winds and rains could affect Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland later Friday and into Saturday, though the storm seems more likely to stay well offshore.

 I can only imagine the plight of friends I met in Florida in 2016, and countless others along its coast. State and federal officials have arranged rescue operations, and people are being made aware of safety procedures. Not surprisingly, climate-change alarmists are seizing the opportunity to promote unfounded fears., Writing in Forbes, Laura Tenenbaum declared, “global warming causes more intense hurricanes” and suggested that more are on the way. Grist quipped, “‘Another hurricane?’ How climate disasters can give us compassion fatigue,” and asserted that “the scientific consensus is that climate change will contribute to more frequent extreme weather events.” Grist blamed President Donald Trump for being complicit.

 This tactic—seizing the moment to politicize a hurricane and push the climate scare—is not new. The Washington Post did the same during Hurricane Florence’s landfall last year.  Is Dorian a result of “climate change”? Well, yes, insofar as every hurricane forms due to changes in climatic conditions that bring favorable conditions for a hurricane. But that, of course, isn’t what climate alarmists have in mind by “climate change.” They mean global warming over the past 50 years or so driven to dangerous levels by human emissions of carbon dioxide. This, they claim, is causing more extreme weather events like the recent wildfires in the Amazon and Category 5 hurricanes like Dorian. https://townhall.com/columnists/vijayjayaraj/2019/09/03/mainstream-media-hijack-hurricane-dorian-for-climatechange-alarm-n2552505