On Thursday afternoon, CNN Newsroom host Ana Cabrera devoted a segment to pushing an alarmist view of the heat wave in the Pacific Northwest even though the high temperatures are not unprecedented.
Bill Weir, the liberal news network's chief climate alarmist, portrayed the dire predictions of the past as too restrained as he joined in hyping the current extreme weather even though it is not unprecedented.
Cabrera set up the segment by hyping a recently released dire analysis:
A group of scientists have a sobering reality check for us in the Northwest heat wave last week. The new analysis says this disaster was not merely an act of nature but also manmade. It "would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change." That is the consensus of an international team of 27 scientists. Their study from World Weather Attribution also finds that climate change made the heat wave "at least 150 times more likely."
After Cabrera and correspondent Camila Bernal marveled at the temperature in Las Vegas being more than 100 degrees even at night, Bernal finally admitted that it was not the first time such temperatures in the area have been so high: "The highest temperature ever recorded for the date, July 8th, is 113. We're expecting the high to be 114, and the highest temperature ever recorded here in Las Vegas, 117. We're likely going to get very close to that over the weekend at the peak of this heat wave."
Cabrera then brought aboard Weir, and the two portrayed the climate situation to be worst than predictions had ever expected. The CNN anchor posed: "Bill, more than two dozen scientists at World Weather Attribution mincing no words in blaming humans for last month's last month's deadly heat wave in the Northwest saying it was virtually impossible about manmade climate change. How important is that statement?"
After portraying global warming alarmists as being restrained and "conservative" in their predictions, Weir agreed with his colleague's pessimistic analysis:
These numbers are so far off the charts in a part of the world that is so unused to this kind of weather activity that they have to say this is a once-in-a-thousand year event, and of course it's the result of humanity pumping sort of planet-cooking pollution into the sky for now over a century -- well over a century -- and this is exactly what sort of the worst predictions were. Even five, 10 years ago, this would have been considered alarmist to see what's happening in the Pacific Northwest, but here we are.
It was not mentioned that heat waves in the U,S. were worse in the 1930s, and that global temperatures for the year have been below the 30-year average, undermining alarmist claims of a dangerous long-term warming trend.
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Transcript follows:
CNN Newsroom
July 8, 2021
1:38 p.m.
ANA CABRERA: A group of scientists have a sobering reality check for us in the Northwest heat wave last week. The new analysis says this disaster was not merely an act of nature but also manmade. It "would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change."
That is the consensus of an international team of 27 scientists. Their study from World Weather Attribution also finds that climate change made the heat wave "at least 150 times more likely." Now, the western U.S. is bracing for another heat wave, and it could be the most brutal one yet.
Now, CNN's Camila Bernal is in Las Vegas, which could see a record high today. Camila, when I was there just a few days ago for a Fourth of July special, it was 100 degrees at 9:00 at night after the sun went down. How much hotter is it supposed to get? And how is the city
coping?CAMILA BERNAL: Well, look, Ana, it can be 100 degrees at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, so there really is no relief. And to put things into perspective, this heat wave is being described as "oppressive" and as something "relentless" and "dangerous." The highest temperature ever recorded for the date, July 8th, is 113. We're expecting the high to be 114, and the highest temperature ever recorded here in Las Vegas, 117. We're likely going to get very close to that over the weekend at the peak of this heat wave.
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CABRERA: Record heat, raging wildfires -- let's talk about the why. Bill Weir is CNN's chief climate correspondent. Bill, more than two dozen scientists at World Weather Attribution mincing no words in blaming humans for last month's last month's deadly heat wave in the Northwest saying it was virtually impossible about manmade climate change. How important is that statement?
BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT: I think it's hugely important, Ana. I mean, scientists, as a creed basically, do not want to be considered alarmists. They're very conservative in how they attribute specific events particularly in meteorology and linking them directly. But, as the evidence rolls in, it just becomes undeniable.
These numbers are so far off the charts in a part of the world that is so unused to this kind of weather activity that they have to say this is a once-in-a-thousand year event, and of course it's the result of humanity pumping sort of planet-cooking pollution into the sky for now over a century -- well over a century -- and this is exactly what sort of the worst predictions were. Even five, 10 years ago, this would have been considered alarmist to see what's happening in the Pacific Northwest, but here we are.
CABRERA: I mean, it does seem like this is happening so much sooner than any of us had anticipated. And we know that in California, for example, they just reported its driest rainfall year on record -- more than 125 years of record-keeping -- and that's on top of an existing drought. Where could this be headed?
WEIR: Oh, it's -- nowhere good unfortunately...
