Climate scientist levels CNN reporter for claiming fossil fuels intensified hurricane — and then he drops the historical facts



Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue rebuked CNN reporter Bill Weir on Wednesday for claiming that fossil fuels and climate change are intensifying storms.

Before Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning, CNN anchor Abby Phillip asked Weir, CNN's chief climate correspondent, about how to protect communities from natural disasters, like hurricanes.

The question was flawed from the start because Phillip claimed that "warmer water, historically warm water" means "communities now are suddenly in the path of hurricanes where they have not been before." Still, Weir took the bait, connecting "wicked storms," fossil fuels, and climate change.

"Is there anything that can be done to protect [these communities] going forward?" Phillip asked.

"That's an amazing question," Weir responded. "It's the biggest, sort of trillion-dollar question about how you adapt communities like this to the world that we're already now living in at the same time trying to mitigate further more wicked storms down the road with more fossil fuel pollution."

Weir added that the cost of fossil fuel pollution-driven climate change is "becoming bigger with every storm."

"Science has been warning about this for a very long time. In many ways, it's been predicted," he claimed. "It's the speed that we're seeing these changes that has taken most folks by surprise."

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The CNN segment was completely misinformed, Maue later pointed out, because there was a major hurricane that hit in the same area as Idalia in the 19th century — long before widespread usage of fossil fuels.

"Except, the landfall of Idalia is only strongest along coastal area since 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane (125 mph) 125-years ago, well prior to modern fossil fuel usage," Maue wrote on social media.

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Maue, whose doctoral research focused on tropical cyclones, also exposed the reductionist connection that Weir and Phillip made between warm water and a strong cyclone.

"Why didn't Idalia rapidly intensify during the 3 days it sat over the NW Caribbean? Did someone forget to push a button or turn a knob?" he mocked, explaining the water in the Northwestern Caribbean is "very warm and deep."

Finally, Maue wondered why hurricanes in the mid-2000s — like Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, which formed over comparatively cooler waters — were significantly stronger than Idalia if the accumulation of fossil fuel pollutants is intensifying cyclonic storms through climate change over time.

Those are probably questions that Weir, whose college degree focused on journalism and writing, cannot answer.

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CNN's 'chief climate' reporter flies more than 6,000 miles to warn about melting ice, climate change



CNN's chief climate correspondent purportedly flew more than 6,000 miles to report on climate change.

On Wednesday, CNN correspondent Bill Weir appeared on "CNN This Morning," reporting from the Tierra de Fuego region of Argentina, the southern tip of South America. In his report, Weir bemoaned the shrinking Antarctic ice cap.

"But while we're here we got this news out of the National Snow and Ice Center in Colorado that for the second year in a row the South Pole is shrinking. The ice down here is shrinking," Weir reported. "What is troubling about this is the speed that it has declined. Just to give you some perspective, in the early 2000s, it looked like Antarctica was growing even as the Arctic was shrinking in alarming ways, and scientists weren't sure why.

"In 2014, the sea ice around Antarctica: 7 million square miles. Now, less than a decade later, it's under 700,000 square miles – so that's a 90% drop," he explained.

\u201cOver 6,600 miles from home, CNN climate man Bill Weir lectures, "The faster we can move away from fuels that burn, in the speediest and most equitable way possible, the less horrible this gets. That's the -- that's the only way right now."\u201d
— Alex Christy (@Alex Christy) 1677683161

Show anchor Don Lemon followed up by asking Weir what, if anything, can be done to slow down the melting.

The answer? According to Weir, humanity must stop spewing carbon into the atmosphere.

"It's the same answer has been for generations. The faster we can move away from fuels that burn, in the speediest and most equitable way possible, the less horrible this gets," Weir told Lemon.

"That's the only way right now. And not only stopping it at the source but pulling carbon out of the sea and sky," he continued. "Carbon removal is going to be the biggest industry you've never heard of as people come to grips with the enormity of this."

If not burning fuels or putting more carbon into the atmosphere is the anecdote to melting ice caps, Weir did not do his part to help.

That's because Weir used carbon-spewing jetliners to take the more than 6,500-mile journey from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to the Ushuaia-Malvinas Argentinas International Airport in Ushuaia, the capital city of the Province of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, likely with some stops in between.

Before departing the U.S. for Argentina, Weir posted a picture of the Aerolineas Argentinas plane he would be flying on.

Google estimates the flight from JFK to Ushuaia results in approximately in 800kg to more than 900kg of carbon dioxide emissions each way, depending on the number of stops .

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CNN reporter claims using gas stove is like 'having a car idling' inside your home



CNN reporter Bill Weir, the network's "chief climate correspondent," uncritically promoted on Wednesday the alarmist narrative about gas stoves.

What is the background?

The Biden administration was reportedly considering a nationwide ban on gas-burning stoves after one study connected the appliances to childhood asthma.

That study, published last month in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, claimed that nearly 13% "of current childhood asthma nationwide is attributed to gas stove use, which is similar to the childhood asthma burden attributed to secondhand smoke exposure."

What did Weir claim?

Speaking about the development on CNN, Weir claimed "the science" shows that operating gas stoves inside a residence is akin to placing a vehicle inside a building and letting it idle.

"The science is showing us that having a gas stove, in a small apartment, especially with bad ventilation, it's like having a car idling there," he claimed.

Weir added that if "you have young kids, it can affect cognitive abilities as well as asthma." Other than referring to the IJERP article, he did not cite any evidence to corroborate his claims.

The reporter went on to declare that banning gas stoves would not just be about personal health but also climate change.

"Methane is 80 times more powerful than CO2 when it comes to heating up the planet," he said.

\u201cCNN's @BillWeirCNN: "The science is showing us having a gas stove, in a small apartment especially with bad ventilation, is like having a car idling there. If you have young kids, it can affect cognitive abilities, as well as asthma."\u201d
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Anything else?

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman Alexander Hoehn-Saric said Wednesday that his agency will not ban gas stoves.

"Research indicates that emissions from gas stoves can be hazardous, and the CPSC is looking for ways to reduce related indoor air quality hazards. But to be clear, I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so," Hoehn-Saric said.

"CPSC is researching gas emissions in stoves and exploring new ways to address health risks. CPSC also is actively engaged in strengthening voluntary safety standards for gas stoves. And later this spring, we will be asking the public to provide us with information about gas stove emissions and potential solutions for reducing any associated risks," he added.

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CNN's Bill Weir issues sexist insult against GOP candidate, and gets fierce social media backlash



A climate correspondent for CNN made what many saw as a sexist attack against a female Republican candidate and saw a fierce backlash on social media.

Bill Weir diminished the accomplishments of Kelly Loeffler, the businesswoman running in the run-off election for one of Georgia's U.S. Senate seats, in a tweet on Wednesday.

Good news, Georgia!If you live on a farm, you now qualify to marry the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange! https://t.co/dLXFantplB
— Bill Weir (@Bill Weir)1605722184.0

"Good news, Georgia!" tweeted Weir. "If you live on a farm, you now qualify to marry the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange!"

Weir was mocking Loeffler for speaking about how she was able to achieve the American dream despite getting started from humble beginnings.

"I've lived the American dream. I went from the farm to the Fortune 500. I want Georgians to have the same freedom & opportunities I had," said Loeffler in the tweet Weir mocked. "And it won't be possible if we go down the road to socialism. We must hold the line and protect the American Dream."

Loeffler had worked to achieve an impressive business career before she married the CEO of a financial services company, but Weir denigrated those achievements and earned the ire of many on social media.

"Are you seriously insinuating that a woman is only successful because of her spouse?" responded Heritage analyst Ana Rosa Quintana.

"You are a disgusting, sexist pig," responded California GOP committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon.

"If a Fox News correspondent said something like this about a Democratic candidate, it'd be a lead story on CNN and feminists would be denouncing it," said commentator Erick Erickson.

Thanks so much to @BillWeirCNN for explaining why half the country thinks the left wing media is hot garbage in a single tweet," tweeted Red State editor Kira Davis.

"Are you serious with this take? Are you actually suggesting that her success just came from marriage? Because it sounds like you should read a bit more," replied NRSC advisor Matt Whitlock.

Others pointed out that CNN had reported on "sexist rhetoric" that female politicians had experienced during elections to show the hypocrisy in Weir's mocking tweet.

Weir had previously apologized in 2014 for referring to Fox News as "willfully ignorant f**ksticks."

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