"Even with Texans still recovering from Hurricane Harvey and Florida residents fearing the worst ahead of Hurricane Irma, journalists seized the moment to promote climate change alarmism.
New York Times, ProPublica and Newsweek journalists have been calling for Harvey, which made landfall in Texas on Aug. 25, and Irma, currently predicted to reach Florida by Sept. 9, to be blamed on or linked to manmade climate change. Journalists urged cable news networks to “start talking about climate change” during Harvey coverage, blamed that storm’s destruction on climate change instead of poor civil engineering and ignored the fact that before Harvey, there had been 12 years without a major hurricane hitting the U.S. .
“Are we still not allowed to talk about climate change?” International Business Times Senior Editor for Investigations David Sirota asked after tweeting statistics about Category Five Hurricane Irma on Sept. 6.
Are we still not allowed to talk about climate change? twitter.com/blkahn/status/…
....Politico senior investigative reporter Josh Meyer also linked Irma and climate change.
Probably unrelated to climate change, right? Irma most powerful storm ever recorded in Atlantic Ocean - CBS News apple.news/Acd-6AjysT4axT…
Meyer linked to a CBS story reporting Irma was the most powerful storm recorded in the Atlantic.
Irma can only be considered the strongest Atlantic hurricane if the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico are excluded, which CBS noted. Hurricane Wilma, in 2005, was actually the strongest storm on record.
It had both higher top wind speeds and lower surface pressure than Irma — the two measures of hurricane strength..."
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