On her eponymous show Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing decided maybe it was time to stop pointing fingers over the prevention of last weekend’s devastating Texas floods. Jansing didn’t imply that President Trump, who made cuts to the National Weather Service, was at fault. She didn’t place any definitive blame on Texas officials for not having certain warning systems in place. According to her and her guests, there was no point in assigning guilt since each and every one of us was responsible for not combating climate change sooner.
Jansing asked controversial climate alarmist Michael Mann, the Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, “What does the science tell us about what the future holds?” Unsurprisingly, the guy with a title like that went into a whole spiel about the various reasons climate change was supposedly the biggest factor at play:
Yes, there are a whole bunch of things that came together, but climate change has made these events worse. It's made them more deadly. And at some level, it's actually really simple. It's simple physics that tells us you warm up the planet, you warm up the oceans two degrees Fahrenheit, which is what they've warmed up so far, you put about 7 percent more moisture in the atmosphere. So when you get rainfall, you get that much more rainfall.
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And then on top of that, these weather systems are increasingly likely to become stalled. They just sit in the same location day after day. Our own research suggests that that, too, is a pattern that is being favored by human-caused warming. And so you put it all together, you get these extreme flooding events. And even worse, we're seeing extremes on both sides of the spectrum. So one summer, extremely dry drought, wildfires, the next summer, huge amounts of rainfall.
Of course, most, if not all, of Mann’s claims were either unproven or flat-out wrong.
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