On the media hype around bad weather

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

The disaster hysteria is meant to frighten. In reality, deaths from extreme weather events have PLUNGED over the last 50 years

I don’t want to write about climate change.

Truly. I don’t know if the models are right or wrong, and I don’t want to spend my life finding out.

But the way the media now reports on weather – not broad climate issues, but day-to-day weather – has bugged me for a while, and last night it hit (literally) close to home.

Climate reporting in the elite media has become a series of endless, breathlessly reported firsts and 1-in-1,000 year events. The hottest June ever in Houston. The driest August in Tokyo. The wettest April in London. The biggest wildfire in Quebec.

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