NPR is continuing its mania over the climate change boondoggle, which evokes a sense of relief that it's no longer peddling this lefty tripe at the expense of the taxpayers.
NPR senior climate editor Sadie Babits published an audacious piece of run-of-the-mill eco-propaganda August 25 headlined, “Did climate change cause this heat wave? Most likely, and here's why.”
Her argument: We’re all cooked — literally! “Dangerous record-breaking heat will continue across the South-Central U.S. and expand into the Southwest by mid-week, bringing daytime temperatures into the triple digits,” she screeched. She continued her spin, “Scientists are increasingly able to make the connection between the extreme weather you're experiencing — in this case, heat — and climate change. They can also show by just how much.”
What “scientists” did she specifically reference in her piece? Oh, just the “modeling happy” World Weather Attribution group, which Climate Depot founder Marc Morano retorted in comments to MRC Business “ claims they can scientifically link a heat wave or a bad weather event to man-made climate change using unverified and self-tuned computer models.” But what more can you expect of the author of the cringeworthy, brain-washing work, “Hot Takes: Every Journalist's Guide to Covering Climate Change?”
She even made a point to vaunt her NPR bona fides as if that somehow lent her some kind of sagely credence on climate science:
As the senior climate editor at NPR, I often send out guidance to the NPR newsroom during extreme weather to help other editors and reporters understand the role of climate change.Now, as large regions of the U.S. are under threats from dangerous heat, you might be looking for that same context and information.”
Translation: Trust us, bro.
Morano tore Babit’s piece apart. “NPR is relentless in trying to tie any bad weather event to man-made climate change,” he rebuked. “Here they once again try to claim that we should trust The Science that humans are causing any given heat wave in the U.S.” In Morano’s estimation, “there are multiple problems with NPR's claims.” Aside from their undue reliance on the WWA group, Morano also noted that Babits “conveniently ignores the entire EPA heat wave historical data that reveals the 1930s still reign supreme in the Heat Wave Index.” The irony is that Babits made it a point in telling readers, “Yes, temperatures will be hot, but pay attention to the heat index.”
So, pay more attention to the conjecture-heavy forecasts, but not the historical data, right? Because that would blow a hole right through her thesis: “The impact of climate change on heat waves is well established by scientists, but it can be hard to figure out what's real and what's not when there's so much information.”
Well, here’s what’s real: When looking at the Annual Heat Wave Index in a line graph model, the 1930s heat waves make what the U.S. has been experiencing the last few years look like firecrackers in comparison. Was that absolutely, positively climate change too? Oh, whatever.
But there was a third issue at play in Babits’ piece. As Morano argued, she ignores “US government NOAA data, which shows that 40 U.S. states set their ‘all-time’ high temperature records before 1955.” Did you catch that? “Before 1955!” In essence, the real heatwave analysis is being chucked out the window in exchange for nothing more than crystal ball babbling, as Morano concluded: “If current heatwaves have not surpassed heatwaves of the past, how in the world is man-made climate change causing them?” Oh, but Babits was so sure of herself:
Human-caused climate change is fueling longer and more intense heat waves in the U.S. and around the world, and it makes dangerously high temperatures more likely. In most weather coverage, journalists will make that connection clear.
“Make that connection clear” could just be a cute way of saying they’ll keep twisting climate data into a funny-shaped pretzels in order to get some predetermined agitprop across.
No more tax dollars for you, NPR!
